Fargo. 1996.
William H. Macy plays Jerry, a car salesman who needs some money, gets in touch with Steve Buscemi and his associate Peter Stormare for the ideal plan, Kidnap the wife, get the ransom money from dear daddy in law Harve Presnell and split the money. Simple little plot for them until blood is shed and determined pregnant police officer Frances McDormand is on the case.
I haven't watched this since the VHS era and didn't quite take it all in and ignored it, in its time frame of 98 minutes, it is a crime drama but the Coen brothers constantly undercut the seriousness with a quirky irony. The movie has the element of thriller but done in a comical way, we see a woman sitting doing knitting watching tv and sees a guy in a ski mask looking in and does nothing except sit there and watch him smash a window then takes off and hides in the simple place after biting a guy's hand....the shower.
Take into a count that this was filmed in America and has a winter setting with the snow and not someplace in Scandinavia, the Coen Brothers use great camera angles to capture everything white to Jerry having a temper tantrum while scraping his car. The acting is brilliant in this and nobody goes OTT or become dull and boring. A great classic of 90s film making YAH.
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