As the Coen brothers' debut, the first film showed their ambition to be a writer's film. The film is a noir film about a man named Marty who finds his wife cheating on his clerk and hires a private detective to kill the two. Unexpectedly, the private detective has another attempt, leading to a series of murder cases. The film has a strong sense of fatalism, thinking that it has mastered the overall situation, but it has developed in an unexpected direction. Everyone's fate seems to be predestined.
The script of the film established the style of the Coen brothers since then, and the plot is full of reversals with inevitable fatalism. Marty wanted to hire his wife and lover to kill his cheating lover, but the detective killed Marty with his own wishful thinking, and left his wife's gun at the scene in an attempt to create the illusion of his wife's murder. Unexpectedly, he left the lighter at the crime scene and went back. When he found that the body and the lighter were missing, Ray was found in the squatting spot. It turned out that when Ray came to find Marty, he saw the body and guns at the scene, thinking that she killed Marty, so he wanted to destroy her body and destroy the traces, but the detective mistakenly thought that Ray was hiding When they got their own evidence, they wanted to kill the two, which eventually led to the death of Ray and himself. The three dead people thought they knew the whole truth, but they were all shot and killed by fate, and they had nothing to do with it. Zhi's wife saved her life.
At the beginning of the film, the two had a dull conversation, and the slow-paced cuts established the slow narrative rhythm of the film. The camera followed Ray slowly into Marty's office. Ray accidentally stepped on the gun, and the sound of the gun firing made the original serious and gloomy atmosphere exploded to the maximum extent. At the end of the film, the wife hid in the bathroom. As the voice-over detective's footsteps approached, the atmosphere of terror descended again. The audience followed the wife and worried again. The door opened, but the wife was not in the room. The audience's heart relaxed, while the detective slowly When he stretched out his hand to the window next door, he felt nervous again. The director's control of the audience's emotions is similar to Hitchcock's technique.
The film marked the beginning of the Coen Brothers' stylized film. Both narrative skills and audio-visual language have been further developed in future works.
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