Reminds me of Yu Hua's "Going Out at Eighteen"
Magical realism, absurdity, dark humor, earth-shaking are all boring. 7:8, the first 2/3 and 7:5, the cow on the roof is 0.4, and the vulgar ending is 0.1.
There is still a bit of a gap between the peak works of the Coen brothers, the story development is shallow, and the absurd development is one after another, but the connection is not in place, and there is no way to fully enter the play. The overall plot is still interesting, I like that cow.
If you really want to see magical realism, Cortazar is better, Marquez is better (although I don't like the latter, but his literary contributions are indeed obvious to all)
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