A perfect serving of Coens lunacy. At one point John Malkovich as the bitter CIA analyst accuses another character of being in a “league of morons.” That would almost make a better title. Everyone in this movie is either selfish, crazy, stupid, paranoid or some combination of all four. Everyone’s motives are misguided and idiotic, but never totally evil. However, the consequences of their idiocy and paranoia are deadly, which is why this movie MUST take place in Washington D.C. What’s amazing about this is the tone gradually and expertly transforms from a straight-faced farce to an outright lunatic binge. The transformation is so elegantly invisible, by the final scene I was in hysterics, laughing retroactively at the impossibly tangled web. Everyone in the cast is great, but J.K. Simmons and David Rasche are standouts as the bureaucrats trying to make sense of it all.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Burn After Reading
A perfect serving of Coens lunacy. At one point John Malkovich as the bitter CIA analyst accuses another character of being in a “league of morons.” That would almost make a better title. Everyone in this movie is either selfish, crazy, stupid, paranoid or some combination of all four. Everyone’s motives are misguided and idiotic, but never totally evil. However, the consequences of their idiocy and paranoia are deadly, which is why this movie MUST take place in Washington D.C. What’s amazing about this is the tone gradually and expertly transforms from a straight-faced farce to an outright lunatic binge. The transformation is so elegantly invisible, by the final scene I was in hysterics, laughing retroactively at the impossibly tangled web. Everyone in the cast is great, but J.K. Simmons and David Rasche are standouts as the bureaucrats trying to make sense of it all.
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