Blood Simple
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Actor: John Getz, Nancy Ginger, Raquel Gavia, Van Brooks, William CreamerCinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Carter Burwell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Blood Simple
Movie Review: The Art of Communication
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD version seems to have tampered with the original movie quite a lot, as far as I can tell from the discussions about it. Since I never watched the film before, surprisingly, that is not an issue for me. So my positive opinion of the film is not a statement on the quality of this special DVD edition.
The film is, pure and simple, basic and essential Coen brothers. There is a straight line to Fargo and the latest, as per this moment, Burn after Reading. Criminals are bunglers. Situations are misunderstood. Motives are error prone. People don't talk to each other. When they try, they will not be listened to. The absurdity of life under violence causes amusement and embarrassment. We laugh and wonder why.
The story in a nutshell: a bar owner receives proof that his wife has cheated him with one of the bar keepers. He offers the private eye, who had taken the photos, money for killing the couple. Then we start a series of doublecrossings, misunderstandings and misinterpretations, leading to some clumsy murders.
Center piece of visual nausea is a bundle of fishes on the desk of the bar owner, lying there for unspecified time and causing associations of megastinks, reminiscent of Polanski's rabbit in the nauseating movie with Deneuve, ages ago.
Frances MacDormand was spectacular as a young and most of the time surprised woman. Wondering about her men and their ways. Odd creatures.
Summary of Blood Simple
A man hires a sleazy private eye to have his wife & her lover killed byt the killer decides that murdering the husband would be the perfect crime instead. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: M Emmett Walsh Dan Hedaya Run time: 96 minutes Rating: RThe debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh
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