--Ahhh, the happy feeling of reading your excellent one-off lines in a review.
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really do back up what handful_ofdust says. Very nowadays.
Historically, I find it really interesting and valuable to have a film of this era state so explicitly that a person can do everything "right" and still end up drowning: I always like correctives to moralistic myths. Personally, aaaaaaaaagh.
--Oh Sam. Sam, Sam, Sam.
I really, not at all ironically love what a terrible crook he makes and how he doesn't get any better over the course of the film. When he finally takes a stand at the climax, he's just being honest, and it barely works out for him, either.
--Yeaaahhhh, in another writer's hands, this would have been Jarvis's intention.
I actually wondered for much of the film, but ultimately it seems to conclude that Jarvis was just as short-sighted about crime as his wife or his accomplice. I have a mixed record with the Coen Brothers—they are sometimes too mean-spirited for me—but I would love to know if they ever saw this movie; it feels like such a forerunner of their dark crime comedies where absolutely everybody is behind the eight-ball and may or may not know it, including the film.
The film exists on Youtube! I'll have to watch it!
Oh, excellent! I didn't even think to check! Enjoy!
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really do back up what handful_ofdust says. Very nowadays.
Historically, I find it really interesting and valuable to have a film of this era state so explicitly that a person can do everything "right" and still end up drowning: I always like correctives to moralistic myths. Personally, aaaaaaaaagh.
--Oh Sam. Sam, Sam, Sam.
I really, not at all ironically love what a terrible crook he makes and how he doesn't get any better over the course of the film. When he finally takes a stand at the climax, he's just being honest, and it barely works out for him, either.
--Yeaaahhhh, in another writer's hands, this would have been Jarvis's intention.
I actually wondered for much of the film, but ultimately it seems to conclude that Jarvis was just as short-sighted about crime as his wife or his accomplice. I have a mixed record with the Coen Brothers—they are sometimes too mean-spirited for me—but I would love to know if they ever saw this movie; it feels like such a forerunner of their dark crime comedies where absolutely everybody is behind the eight-ball and may or may not know it, including the film.
The film exists on Youtube! I'll have to watch it!
Oh, excellent! I didn't even think to check! Enjoy!