This is not a movie, this is politics

Madyson 2022-04-22 07:01:04

I don't know what to say about this movie, the artist's thinking is always ahead of its time. The Coen brothers' films still take a little brainstorming to understand, but while you're brainstorming, the brothers are probably having fun.
John Malkovich, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, you are big enough, this time, instead of playing Rohan, play black humor. The title of the film is reminiscent of the COOL shot of Tom Tom throwing glasses in MI2. This is an Oolong spy film. It can also be regarded as an American version of the stone, or a crazy CD, and the Coen brothers are more brilliant than our domestic directors. In the ubiquitous irony and the handling of the ending. To paraphrase the words at the beginning of the film, this is not a movie, this is politics. Even if you have not lived in the United States, you can see some of the content of the film's satire. Unemployment is the first and foremost. Needless to say, I am very happy to have a job now. And then there's divorce, a very real social issue. Next is the network, there is no doubt that the network in this film plays a negative role. There are also ubiquitous surveillance systems, which the film directly or indirectly points out many times. There are also things such as Spygate, US-Russian relations, PcorMAC, plastic surgery, etc., and the details of satire are everywhere. Anyway, there is always a satirical content that suits you. To survive in such a society, everyone seems to be shrewd, but in fact everyone is mentally ill. The ending seems to be very happy, but the CIA's talk is like a summary of the whole film, all things, all people, are fucking FUCK a bunch of SHIT. The ending song is CIA MAN, it's black in the end. It's really rare that these big names have played such a role as SB, but think about it, don't we all have the shadow of these SBs? The Coen brothers are movie people after all, we don't know yet.

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  • Naomi 2022-03-23 09:01:21

    The Coen Brothers’ pessimistic existentialist worldview always seems a little frivolous in comedy, but what he laughs at is the meaninglessness of all desires and pursuits, so he also uses the meaningless shell of farce to cover this meaningless story, and instead rewinds it. Out of the tragic behind. As with all Cohn's works, the insightful God has already withdrawn, leaving mankind to monitor each other. The surveillance network in the movie is not dense, but even the CIA, which is at the top of the surveillance network, cannot explain what it sees. So burn the dead, and forget the past tragedies, as if they had never existed in this world.

  • Thurman 2021-10-20 19:02:04

    I think it should be called that Hong Kong name

Burn After Reading quotes

  • Chad Feldheimer: And

    [takes a piece of paper out of his pocket]

    Chad Feldheimer: I got his number! I got his number!

  • CIA Superior: The Russians?

    CIA Officer: Mmm-hmm.

    CIA Superior: The Russians?

    CIA Officer: Mmm-hmm, Russian Embassy.

    CIA Superior: Are you sure?

    CIA Officer: Hey, the guy was not hard to follow, as you know.

    CIA Superior: Why the fuck would they go to the Russians? Why the fuck?