In the vast expanse of white and earth, the distant car slowly approached the camera, and the music that was accompanied by it was filled with a sense of desolation, like a funeral song, after the addition of timpani, it became impressive. The Gao An brothers made such a mundane picture and made it one of the most impactful movie openings in the 90s. They used the snow scene to bring out the loneliness and despair of people, which was disappointed by Jerry (played by William H. Macy). Knowing that his parking lot plan was "snatched up" by his father-in-law for investment, the next overhead shot (as shown in the picture below), which is like a stunning courtyard composition in "Last year in Marumba", is able to walk on the snow. He seemed small and helpless.
A director or screenwriter with average skill may tell Jerry to the kidnappers to kidnap his own wife, as Plot Twist, put it at the end; but the Gaoan brothers revealed the "trump card" from the beginning of the movie, and as the plot develops, The audience will not lose the motivation to keep watching because they are told the biggest truth. One of the most fascinating passages in the film happened when the kidnappers drove the kidnapped Jerry’s wife on the dark road outside Brainerd. The appearance of this passage from the giant statue of Paul Bunyan has brought the movie even more. "Weird" atmosphere; as the kidnapper was stopped by the patrol, the audience became nervous for them; but when the patrol was killed and the process was witnessed by someone in another vehicle, we would also give a hand to the witnesses who wanted to kill the kidnappers. Pa Khan (the best thing is that the audience's vision is still stuck in the kidnapper's car but worried about the safety of the people in the other car). Such turbulent changes continue to appear in this less than 100-minute movie; the Gao An brothers want us to focus on not only the so-called good people, but also several opposite roles.
The potbellied sheriff Marge, played by Frances McDormand, only appeared after a third of the film, but quickly attracted the attention of the audience. On the one hand, she showed keen observation or the ability to quickly return to the scene of the crime, but on the other hand, she was shown in a specially arranged shot that skillfully cuts the picture in half (as shown in the picture below). Even starting his own patrol car is not so easy. Frances McDormand used the accent a little bit mixed with the Skandinaviske peninsula to play a convincing role that hid his strength under the appearance of the teacher. It's like the scene where she met her old classmate again, from the smile and kindness at the beginning, to the sudden change of her face when the old classmate suddenly wants to take the opportunity to wipe her oil, but then it will continue to make a round transition. Can let us feel her great resilience. What Marge said to the kidnappers at the end of the policewoman ("Do you know, there are many things in life that are more meaningful than this little money... I really don't understand"), which represents the belief of society Her so-called correct value orientation, and her never domineering or accommodating with her husband at home, is also a manifestation of a harmonious and balanced state pursued by the mainstream.
In contrast, there is also a strong Jerry family, but because of the father-in-law's unwillingness to give in, there is an imbalance and collapse. For the two roles of policewoman Marge and Jerry, one seemed calm, while the other was always in a state of anxiety and tension. If we are careful, we can notice that Jerry usually wipes the soles of his shoes before going in. But after his grandfather was killed by the kidnappers, the Gaoan brothers took advantage of Jerry’s small walk into the house. The details, to show the true breakdown of his heart. Jerry continues to run into troubles that he can't solve and endure more and more, and almost all things and plans happen against his wishes.
In this film, the two kidnappers involved in the kidnapping, one outgoing nagging, with a weird appearance; the other introverted and silent, seeming more terrifying. The kidnapper Carl (played by Steve Buscemi) did not want to make matters worse when he was intercepted by the patrol, and in subsequent plots, he will also show his weak side, but when he was shot by Jerry’s father-in-law, Carl did Become more cruel (not even the toll collector of the parking lot), and the mud he walked on made him sink deeper and deeper. As for the other kidnapper, Gaear (played by "Chameleon" Peter Stormare), he seems to be the protagonist in Camus' "Alien", indifferent, lonely, and on the sidelines; his indifference is strongly incompatible with Carl's "enthusiasm." The contrast formed a kind of interesting and absurd feeling; and the similar hot and cold contrast was also seen when the two had sex with a prostitute in a motel. The scene suddenly changed and saw them sitting quietly on the bed, watching "The Tonight A scene from "Show".
The Gao An brothers used a nearly objective "zero-degree style" in this ups and downs of the movie, watching it like a close-up shot of Jerry's wife who is covered and exhaled with "white air". Absurd world. We may borrow Sartre's comment-"There is no such thing as good and evil, there is no moral immorality" to describe the characters in "Snowflake High Bizarre Murder", because the Gaoan brothers don't want us to finally agree with the mainstream value represented by the female police chief Marge. Orientation, but the focus is to show these “ridiculous” things that she didn’t understand at the end; in fact, the sense of emptiness revealed in the ordinary life that Marge and her husband lived with, and Jerry wanted to kidnap his wife Thoughts, actions, or rational kidnappers' irrational behaviors are all part of the lingering sense of "absurdity" in this movie. Sheriff Marge, Jerry, who is suppressing herself in front of her father-in-law, and Gaear, the kidnapper who seems unfathomable, will also hide a certain side of herself in the film.
The Gao An brothers' "Snowflake High Bizarre Murder" uses Marge to buy her husband fishing earthworms and other seemingly trivial life plots that have nothing to do with the main line of the film. It not only plays a role in the tense, violent, and absurd kidnapping story in the film. A certain degree of neutralization and buffering, and because of the "out-of-fit" insertion of such a life-oriented plot, it will increase the absurdity of the movie to a certain extent, and thus make the whole work unique. And this movie, which should have taken the horror route, was added black humor by the Gao An brothers, and showed their superb balance ability. Such chilling "Snowflake High Bizarre Murder" did not fully enter the darkness of the ice and snow. Here, the new life cherished by the female police chief Marge is like a beam of light that is about to be projected, giving people still hope for the future.
The movie "Snowflake High Bizarre Murder" was noted at the beginning that it was adapted from a real event in 1987, but in essence this was a joke made by the Gao An brothers with the audience. And a Japanese otaku woman named Takako Konishi even believed that the kidnapper Carl hid a huge ransom in the snow in this film. She flew thousands of miles from Japan to Minneapolis, and then went to the small town of Fargo to "treasure hunt". , But was finally found dead in the snow beside the Fargo Highway. I think many people shouldn’t understand Takako Konishi’s behavior, just like Marge, the policewoman, can’t understand why Gaear went to desperation because of this little money (he only gets a small part of the huge ransom). Same. Or the "adapted based on real events" noted by the Gaoan brothers in this film is already trying to inform the world that the bizarre reality is no less than what happened in the movie. In the real world, there are still many people like Takako Konishi. , Towards Fargo, or away from the "location" that we ordinary people can understand, go too far!
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