Serial movie

"The Absent" inherited the consistent style of the previous Coen brothers "Blood Labyrinth", "Fargo", "Murder Green Toe" and the following "Old Nowhere". The lens focuses on a certain time and environment that the two brothers are familiar with. Some small characters survive according to their logic, but they always encounter unexpected events and endings. What the Coen brothers struggled to outline was driven by every inch of the skin of these little people and the underlying texture. Therefore, when different people go to watch the Coen Brothers movies, they can always integrate their own knowledge and produce rich interpretations from different perspectives. The Coen brothers used craftsmen and philosophical thinking to dig out the survival stories they are familiar with, and they are all conveying the same proposition "Fate is impermanent, no matter how hard you work, life will not continue in the way you understand. What you do It should be accepted frankly." However, I talk about this proposition every time, and every time it is the same attractive. This is the tongue that everyone is qualified to chew.

However, it is always a theme. Will the audience keep buying it? Let’s take a look at these


"Blood Maze"
budget of 15 million;
box office of 21 million;

"Fargo"
budget of 7 million;
box office of 24 million;

"Murder Green Toe"
budget of 15 million;
box office of 17 million;

"The Absent"
budget of 20 million,
At the box office more than 7 million.

"Serious Man" has a
budget of 7 million;
box office of 9 million;

"Old Nowhere" has a
budget of 25 million;
box office of 74 million;


The Coen brothers are not really good at the commercial box office, and they have never made a box office of hundreds of millions. The box office of "The Absent" was even more disastrous. These are actually predictable, such as full black and white, and lack of very ups and downs, the narrative is very difficult to coherent but the audience does not buy it. Fortunately, the Coen brothers live in an environment like Hollywood, and they can also be self-conscious and self-willed occasionally. In China, where there is no shortage of talents, no director has such a relaxed environment. This is indeed a bit sad, but the Coen brothers have said: "receive with simplicity everything that happens to you". All

we can do is admit and accept it with confidence.

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