Facts you don't want

Syble 2022-03-16 09:01:02

I have watched several films by the Coen brothers, and after watching them, they all made me smile or hum. The same is true for burning after reading.
At the beginning of the film, the zoomed-in perspective from space allows the audience to enter like a god as a witness to the whole thing. The story goes from being unemployed, cheating to Gaomi, shooting, and the last mess is gone. Everyone's vision is so narrow in front of the audience, a little change in random events changes the ending. But after all, the authorities are fans, and bystanders are clear. There is no so-called fate or cause and effect, they are all agitated in the chaos. Getting rid of and struggling both promote the development of things. If everyone can stop and think about it, it is impossible. It is like a gear on a machine. You exist, so you operate. Almost everyone in the story is connected by wires. Once an outsider intervenes, he will bear the tremendous pressure of this system. The gym owner is this outsider. At the end of the film, it seems that only the head of the CIA and the small boss took the overall picture and wrote it into the report. But who knows what is hidden in the wooden national emblem on the wall? Finally, the camera retracted back into space, as if God was saying: "It's really messy, wait for the sequel!"

Several details in the film are very interesting:
1. Clooney's wife and lover scolded each other privately as cold and arrogant bitches, expressing The last word is not bad.
2. Clooney got off after 5.2 kilometers in his lover's car and ran home, as if taking exercise as a burden.
3. The wooden national emblem in the head office of the CIA and the American informant in the Russian embassy.
4. The fate of two gym employees breaking into private houses.

I like this kind of video that requires careful digging of small easter eggs. If you go out to pee and do not press pause, then you may have missed more than a few dialogues and cutscenes, but a lot of them.

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  • Savanna 2021-10-20 19:02:04

    Great, one of Cohen's most underrated works.

  • Alvina 2021-10-20 19:02:04

    If it is the work of another director, you can score 4 points. But this is the Coen brothers, they can only play 3 points. It is a bit lower than their usual standard. The smell is a bit strange. Like a mixture of wine and water. According to the standard of water, it is a little bit rushing, but it is too weak to ask for wine. Some comrades who have seen it say it is humorous, but I really didn't see it. If the phrase "make it from behind" is humorous, it's really humorous. To talk about black humor, the previously lowest rated "Sister Milk Killer" also played better than this. If you follow that path, there is no difference. The brothers may still want to change a little bit, want to make some life-flowing black humor. But the taste of life didn't come out, and the black humor was not enough. It's not black or white, and it's a bit gray. It feels like after the "Old Nowhere" broke out, brother

Burn After Reading quotes

  • Osbourne Cox: If you ever carried out your proposed threat you would experience such a shitstorm of consequences my friend your empty little head would be spinning faster than the wheels of your Schwinn bicycle back there.

    Chad Feldheimer: [laughing] You think that's a Schwinn!

  • Krapotkin: [think a few seconds] PC or MAC?