A Fine Weave
Very few in Hollywood can write and shoot enigmatic films like Joel and Ethan Coen. Each of their films are a unique journey in every sense. Story, setting, production design and especially character.
Their films have the feel of stage plays where characters are real but in a novel sense. It’s as if they create worlds and characters that exist in a bubble so the audience gets enough detachment to reflect from. The Coen brothers are also quite adept at blending genres and their conventions just enough to make things interesting, but not overbearing. They’re neither dramas, comedies, musicals or farce perhaps because reality is not that cut and dried.
What seemingly are mundane events are innocently complicated by individual agendas. It all starts with the discovery of a rather innocuous CD of personal data, add a little innuendo and a dash of human frailty and watch what people can do. (This includes the rather secret device George Clooney’s character builds in the basement)
