The white land is so clean

Harmon 2021-10-13 13:05:36

It may be a coincidence that the first contact with the Coen brothers started from this year’s Oscar hit "Old Nowhere". At that time, I was very surprised. After watching this movie and looking back at Fargo, it feels as weird as it is. It is also a police movie, produced in Hong Kong. Police and gangster movies always have big brothers and brothers, feuds, rivers and lakes, etc., which make them bored and bored. The Coen brothers took a different approach, much like the open-air movies that prevailed when they were young. Usually in a road or compound that you don't pass often, when viewed from behind the screen, it's a completely different scene. The two movies have different stories but the same grotesque and absurdity, which will keep you breathless from beginning to end. The three lenses that impressed fargo deeply are one black and two white. The scene in the middle of the film looks down from pitch black to the appearance of a huge woodcutter with such a hideous face. The two whites are the beginning and the end. At the beginning, a car came slowly in the snowy weather, seeming to divide the screen into two halves. Towards the end, the camera was stretched out from the inside of the car driven by the policewoman, and the car holding the suspect gradually disappeared into the snow and fog. Snow continued to fall, covering everything on the ground, including the sins of the world. Echoing before and after, it was like the "Dream of Red Mansions" that "delivered my life in vain. It was as if the birds were thrown into the forest, and a piece of white land was really clean."
I always like to do things neatly and not muddy. Unexpectedly, in the Coen brothers' film, even the murder was aggressive, regardless of the reason. There is no need to ask too much why, it is unreasonable, there are no moves, there is no procrastination, the other party is often caught off guard, blood has been splashed. "Everywhere in life you know how it is, it should be like Feihong stepping on the snow mud, accidentally leaving fingers and claws on the mud, Hong Fei reconsidering things," really until Feihong steps on the snow without leaving a mark. Some people even praised Javier Bardem, the actor of the old helpless killer, as a villain who can be included in the history of the movie.

It may be related to the profession I am engaged in. I have seen too many human tragedies. I always thought I was immune to blood, my nerves were thick enough, and my heart was hard enough. I wouldn’t feel hurt anymore. I couldn’t help feeling scattered on the snow when I first saw this film. His blood is so bright red and dazzling. Some people say that there are three different states of life: either the pursuit of the abundance of material life; or the pursuit of the satisfaction of spiritual life; or the pursuit of the peace of the soul. The poorest character in the film is the car dealer who exhausted his calculations and calculations. From the beginning, he only hoped to blackmail a sum, and then he knew that his business plan was possible. He was busy hoping to cancel the kidnapping, but was caught by the old man. Playing in the palm of his hand, as things evolve and become out of control, facing the old man's corpse, he has no choice but to open the trunk of his car. Do you blame him now? He just wants to make his family and friends know and respect himself through hard work. If the husband-in-law approves the plan or cancels the kidnapping, the matter will not end in a series of killings. Too many ifs and assumptions still can't stop things from advancing step by step, like opening a Pandora's box. Chen Xiaoxu, who plays Lin Daiyu, showed her heart when she learned that she was suffering from cancer: "I used to focus on the accumulation of wealth, but then discovered that material growth did not bring real happiness to myself and my family." Is it really necessary to wait until life? At the last moment, we understand that desire is endless, and life does not have to climb peaks forever. Seeing a picture, a mouse hesitated in front of the trap, faced with the temptation of cheese, and was caught in a dilemma. Humans and mice are so similar. In the face of temptation, reason and impulse are like the two ends of a balance, but they are not enough to maintain a delicate balance and are always difficult to control. Occasionally, I can resist because the temptation is not big enough or the reasons I found are not enough to convince myself.

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Extended Reading

Fargo quotes

  • Shep Proudfoot: [to Carl after he inadvertently put a police chief on Shep's trail who's an ex-con] Fuckin' asshole!

  • Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Mr. Lundegaard? This is Reilly Diefenbach from GMAC. How are you this morning?

    Jerry Lundegaard: [into the phone] Real good. How are you?

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Pretty good, Mr. Lundegaard. I must say, you are damn hard to get a hold of over the phone.

    Jerry Lundegaard: Well, we're pretty darn busy here, but that's the way we like it.

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Well, that's for sure. The reason why I've been trying to reach you is that these last financing documents that you sent over to us... I can't read the serial numbers of the vehicles...

    Jerry Lundegaard: [getting nervous] Yah, well I already got the money. The loans are in place. I already got the...

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Yah, the 320 thousand... you got the money last month from us.

    Jerry Lundegaard: So, we're all set then.

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Yah, but the vehicles that you're borrowing on, I just can't read the serial numbers on your application. Maybe if you could just read...

    Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, but the deal's already done. I've already got the money.

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Yah, but we have an audit here and I just have to know that these vehicles that your financing with this money that they really exist.

    Jerry Lundegaard: [getting more nervous] Well... they exist all right.

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Well, I'm pretty sure they do, but I can't read the serial numbers here. Maybe if you could read the numbers to me on the first...

    Jerry Lundegaard: Yah... well... see... I don't have them in front of me. Why don't I just fax you over a copy?

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] No, no, a fax is no good. That's what I have here and I can't read the darn thing.

    Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, I'll have my girl send you a copy then.

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] Okay, that's good. But I need to tell you that if I can't correlate these numbers with those specific vehicles, then I'm gonna have to call back all that money.

    Jerry Lundegaard: How much money did you say that was?

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] $320,000. I have to correlate that money with the cars that it's being lent on.

    Jerry Lundegaard: Okay, no problem. I'll just fax...

    Reilly Diefenbach: [voice] No, no...

    Jerry Lundegaard: I mean send it right over. I'll shoot it right over. Good bye.

    [hangs up]