The maverick storytelling style and the plot design without losing the taste of the public make the Coen brothers' films unique in the history of film.
"Blood Simple" is Cohen's first film. In this one and a half hour film, Cohen uses superb lens language to tell us a story about murder. The story begins with the husband asking the killer to kill his wife and his mistress because of his wife’s betrayal. However, by chance, Fang Fang died due to his own suspicion and selfishness, and the people who survived are also confused.
The film is not about reflecting how profound themes, nor about expressing how noble ideas, but trying to tell the audience a bizarre and attractive story. It's just that the story is told without a head and no tail, and it is between this head and no tail that makes the audience memorable. At the same time, I am addicted to this kind of headless thinking.
Looking at the entire film, it seems to be telling people's retribution due to selfishness and greed, but aside from the theme of revealing selfishness and greed, the deeper aspect of the film is telling the elusiveness of people and the elusiveness of fate. It is around this unpredictability that the significance of the Coen Brothers movies has risen to a new height, which is thought-provoking.
The beauty of narrative ~ The
film adopts a linear narrative method, but this linear narrative develops because of the establishment of multiple doubts, and the setting of this kind of doubt makes the narrative appear to be non-uniform.
Characters on both sides~
The characters in the film are often indecisive, and all the characters are finally destroyed in the traps they designed before. Each character has its own characteristics, but they all have two sides. On the one hand, they are trying their best to persecute each other, but they have to regret the persecution afterwards.
Features~
The films of the Coen brothers are highly appreciative. This appreciativeness lies in the fact that he puts the story and the characters in a closed desert. In this desert world, there is no order. The original social rules and moral order are disintegrated at the end of the film. In this film, there are only two kinds of people who are confronting each other. The two sides of this confrontation are constantly changing roles. In the end, it actually returned to the confrontation and contradiction in people's hearts.
Cohen's films have strong suspense characteristics, but they are different from other suspense films, in order to keep the suspense and to attract the audience's emotions, but because this kind of suspense is designed to convey the thought of the film.
The high point of Cohen's movie is that he takes apart all the elements of the movie, and combines it in a unique way to show his thoughts.
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