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Advantages: Funny, touching, dramatic, quirky - just plain brilliant Disadvantages: Quite a bit of swearing and violence; you might not "get it"
Fargo is the sixth movie by film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, who between them wrote, directed and produced this, just like most of their films. I’m not that familiar with them, having only seen O Brother Where Art Thou (which I really liked) and The Big Lebowski (which was ok), but Fargo is considered by many as their finest film, and a modern American classic. Released in 1996, Fargo is a kind of dark comedy/drama, with gentle humour and ... ...you’ve seen it).
Yet Fargo manages to be effortlessly entertaining, clever and thoughtful. The film races by so quickly that when the end came I wasn’t ready for it - it’s a complete cliché to say that you don’t want the film to end, but in this case it’s true. It seemingly came out of nowhere, even though the film had been playing for an hour and a half and the story had been wrapped up. I was just so engrossed in the film that I was taken aback ...
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Advantages: Far better performances than the film deserves. Disadvantages: Let's see - sadistic, inhumane, dishonest, cowardly...
...and nasty Lars Von Trier, Breaking The Waves is, like his later Dancer In The Dark and Dogville, a cynical, misogynist melodrama that comes a hell of a lot closer to "Torture Porn" than anything Eli Roth has ever crafted. Emily Watson plays the childlike, mentally unstable Bess McNeil - the Holy Fool of the piece, pretty much - who, as a means of pleasing her recently paralysed husband Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), sets about prostituting herself to an ... ...far removed from Von Trier's. Breaking The Waves engages neither the soul nor the mind - it is an (admittedly well directed, for what its worth) insulting, offensive exercise in manipulation - a Sirkian melodrama shorn of heart or insight, loaded with bile and hatred in their stead. The performances, as is always the case in Von Trier's work, are wonderful throughout - far, far better than the film deserves. The handheld camerawork which would become ...
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Advantages: Nice when it's over Disadvantages: Everything
This film may have a controversial and possibly disturbing theme, but why make it in the first place ?
There is little or no storyline, no characterisation, the acting is wooden and the whole effect i
