Monday, April 03, 2006

Fargo

I suddenly realized I haven't been giving the movie Fargo as a "must see" recommendation to people. This struck me when I was watching the BAFTA awards on tv and William H Macy came to present an award. He, Steve Buscemi and the other top 2-3 cast members in this movie do such an excellent job.

Disturbing movie overall. Set in the cold US states of Dakota and Minnesota (Minneapolis), this movie has an extreme "chill" factor to it. The movie is about this person who in desperate circumstances hires two men to pull off a kidnapping of his wife. Basically to extract a ransom from his father in law. Things go way off plan and get out of hand. To make it worse a pregnant cop starts investigating and she turns out to be an extremely virtuous and persistent officer.

I'll take a bold step and go ahead to describe it as an antecedent of the kill bill movies. Though it is not as fast paced as the kill bill movies, there are scenes that are as horrific as they can get.

Go watch it...

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