Facing the old man who has a lot of wealth but is addicted to money, he came up with a brilliant idea. He commissioned a car mechanic to help him find two people to pretend to kidnap his wife, so that he could use the opportunity of ransom to blackmail a sum of money from his husband to invest in his parking lot plan.
It's just a humble idea from a humble man. His wife suffered a bit, and the old man lost his wealth. He found a sum of money to invest in the parking lot. From then on, he could start his "career" without having to endure the mean boss and old man.
But the development of things is that the plan cannot keep up with the changes. First, the old man agreed to invest in his plan, so the fake kidnapping plan must be stopped. It just happened that the two "kidnappers" couldn't be contacted. Back home, his wife was successfully abducted away. It doesn't matter, agreeing to invest is not inconsistent with another extortion. The next thing started to get out of control.
Kidnappers Gore and Gail are two men with a little quirk. A long weird elf, one who is too lazy to speak much. They tied Jerry's wife to their hands according to the agreed plan and drove a brand new car provided by Jerry. The problem was with the new car Jerry provided. They forgot to put a temporary license plate on the new car, and on the snowy night they met the police patrolling. During the inspection, the police heard the woman struggling. At a critical moment, they shot the policeman to death. Things started to develop in a bad direction.
When they tried to remove the police body, a car happened to pass by and witnessed the murder. So they had to shoot two young men and women passing by. Three lives were killed.
The pregnant policeman Maggie was ordered to investigate the case. The clue is the new car, which provides information about which seller came from. So Jerry was quickly questioned; however, he denied that the car was lost.
Through telephone records, Maggie found MOTEL, where the kidnappers had lived, and the two prostitutes who had been recruited. The clues pointed to Xue Fu, the car repairer. A big parole prisoner of Indian descent. Xue Fu learns that he has been involved in a murder case, and furiously goes to squash the kidnapper he introduced. The kidnapper was impatient, so he put pressure on Jerry. Ask for immediate payment.
Originally, Jerry told the kidnappers to pay a ransom of 80,000, half of the kidnappers, and half of him; now the kidnappers demand all 80,000. However, what Jerry told the old man was not the price, but 1 million. The old father-in-law had the money ready, but he didn't let Jerry go alone, but negotiated with the kidnapper himself.
The anxious kidnapper saw a strange old man who came to pay the money, and shot him casually. However, the old man is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He shot and wounded the kidnapper before he died. The kidnapper left the exit of the parking lot, and because of the blood on his face, he had to kill the janitor. Jerry rushed to the payment location later, and the situation was out of control. He had to hide the old man's body and went home tremblingly.
Kidnapper Gore was surprised to find that the ransom brought by the old man was 1 million, not 80,000. Although the situation is out of control, the entire state police are looking for them, but they are also excellent value for money. He buried the extra 920,000 in the snow and returned to the den with 80,000 yuan and an injured face. However, because he and another kidnapper Gale had a disagreement about dividing up the new car, the more cruel Gale simply killed Al Gore. Of course, poor Jerry's wife was also killed.
When Maggie went to Jerry's office again to inquire about the lost car, Jerry, who couldn't bear the pressure, finally couldn't restrain her anger, leaving police Maggie inexplicable. When Maggie offered to talk to the boss, Jerry fled from under the nose of the policeman.
The pregnant policeman Maggie slowly found out the details of the case like this, and Jerry was wanted. During her regular patrols, she even accidentally found the car involved in the crime, so she also found the kidnapper’s den. The kidnapper Gail is stuffing Jerry's wife's body into the wood shredder...
This film is not the best among the Coen Brothers' films, but it is a typical work of the Coen Brothers film noir style. Frances McDormand, who plays Maggie, won an Oscar for the film. The whole film, FARGO ("Snowflake High Bizarre Murder"), tells such a bizarre murder like a running account.
Originally, it was just an ordinary blackmail case within the family, and no one wanted to cause too much trouble; but the ending couldn't be worse. At the end of the film, when the state police captured Jerry from a hotel in a foreign land, he resisted in vain, grabbing the window lattice desperately, crying hoarsely. Jerry was just a humble man who played a little bit of cleverness when faced with the chance of turning over and making a fortune, and wanted to blackmail a sum of money from the wealthy old man to invest. Such thoughts are not a big sin.
It was no risk that the gangsters Gore and Gail were recommended by their friend Shef to take up such a thing. The employer himself asked for the kidnapping of his wife, and the ransom was divided in half. They were just making a small amount of money from the trivial matter of Yucheng. The trouble started with a small oversight. They even forgot to install a temporary license plate on the new car Jerry provided - and the license plate was on the back seat of the car.
A small negligence resulted in seven lives, and Jerry, the initiator, could not escape the fate of being imprisoned in the end. Therefore, when the state police captured Jerry, he really felt that he was "innocent" and "innocent" and could not face and accept such a bad situation.
The Coen brothers are best at this kind of black humorous movies. Life is full of absurdities and accidents, and under the plain and trivial calm surface, the most bizarre and unbelievable ending is conceived. You may just want to plant a bean, but you end up with a large herd of pigs. A small omission in the seamless plan may lead to results that you never wanted in your most vicious thoughts.
The rhythm of the film is dull, full of too many details of the running account. Works like Maggie’s husband were accepted as stamps by the General Post Office; Maggie had a big belly to meet the neurotic old Asian classmate. Life is composed of these trivial things. From the perspective of the police investigating the case, the consecutive murders are really bizarre, and it is impossible to guess the motives of the perpetrators. (In the film, the police never knew that the kidnapping happened until the final conclusion was settled).
What's more frightening is that the loss of control caused by a small negligence will develop a force that cannot be resisted by manpower. You know that things will get worse and worse, and you will be involuntarily involved in making things worse. Just like when Jerry rushed to the parking lot and saw the bodies of the old man and the janitor, if he calmed down, he could completely end his deteriorating situation. After all, the crime of plotting a false kidnapping and real blackmail is much lighter than the murder of consecutive murders. Jerry couldn't control his emotions and behavior. He chose the dumbest and most direct way: hiding the old man's body.
In fact, it was just a pea so small that only the princess could distinguish it, but after it was planted, it gave birth to a group of pigs.
This is black humor.
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