Murder of Green Toe – the black humor of an old bastard

Today I'm writing a movie, a movie that I really like, called Murder green toe, and the director is the Coen brothers. Regarding the Coen brothers, I will not repeat them here, baidu has them. Absurd, dreamy, bloody, violent, suspenseful, humorous... There are countless labels that describe the duo's film style, which shows the Coen brothers' highly personal artistic talent.

Murder of The Green Toe is a comedy film about three idle old bastards who go through a series of bizarre experiences. However, after watching it, if we want to ask what the film wants to express and what it says, this kind of self-questioning is like the movie itself, which brings us more confusion and confusion. In fact, this result is not due to the disorder of the movie's plot. On the contrary, the story of the film is extremely tense, a series of strange events like a net, covering the protagonist, pushing the story forward, such as chemical reactions, intricate and complex, and finally the clouds are cleared, and all the doubts formed in the heart are smoothed out. At this time, you will involuntarily look at the sky, look at the clarified heaven and earth, and ask yourself what all this is, of course, this is the sky and the earth, but you know that this is definitely not the answer you want, and this is the reason for the emptiness in our hearts when we finish watching the movie, and it is also the answer I am looking for in this article.

Featuring a night scene in Los Angeles, a rolling hay ball, and a third-person monologue in the background, the film sets the tone for the story: sadness and black humor, and introduces the protagonist and location of the story: Lipowski, who calls himself "Cool Brother", a decadent and unlucky man living in Los Angeles. This is the convention of all the Coen brothers' films, and if you look at their other films, their stories mostly unfold in this form. You'll find that the film is made up of a series of elements rather than the story itself, which causes the audience to see the film for the first time and not know what the film is about, creating a feeling of emptiness and inexplicability.

Elements, that is, everything, from the details to the whole, patchwork combinations, fragmentary development, this is a major feature of postmodern cinema. Jumping out of the storyline of the character dialogue, colorful character personality, absurd behavior logic, everything seems to serve the story, each exists for itself, but invariably promotes the development of the story. This kind of film seems to have no main idea, and the director himself does not convey a clear and noble value, but only tells an absurd story.

In the process of promoting the development of the plot, the characters' respective personalities play a crucial role, it can be said that it is the differences of people that constitute the causal law of the development of the story, and the fate is formed in this way.

At the beginning of the story, Liposki, as usual, went home after buying something at the convenience store, and just after opening the door, he was ambushed at home by the thugs who pressed into the flush toilet and asked him for money, he was a poor egg of course, he had no money, in order to show humiliation, one of the thugs spilled urine on the carpet in his living room, and finally found that he had found the wrong person, and the Liposki they were looking for was someone else. Lipowski was a lazy and dangling man, so Liposki found Lipowski, a rich old man, because he wanted to compensate his carpet, because the two thugs were looking for him, not himself, and this mistaken injury required the old man to pay. The old man did not give, but proposed to ask the protagonist to help him do things, it turned out that the thugs found him because Liposki's wife owed them money, the thugs were nihilists, but also businessmen who made adult videos, and the old man's wife carried him behind his back and owed them money for pornographic movies. So his wife was kidnapped, and the old man gave Liposky a box of money and told him to redeem him and take revenge. Liposki agreed, and drove with his good friend Walter to ransom. But Walter is also a violent temper, in the process of giving money, he has ideas, wants to swallow money with Lipovsky alone, there is a firefight in the process of trading, things fail, the transaction is terminated, and the subsequent plot follows the accident and develops downwards.

We see that human character dominates people's choices, thus affecting the direction of life, we often say that character determines destiny, this is reasonable. The development of things has its own internal logic, the antecedent cause leads to the consequence, and this consequence leads to the antecedent cause leads to another consequence, the cycle is repeated, the chain reaction is formed, forming a precise and coherent causal chain, and this coiled web is fate.

At the end of the story, also because of Walter's impulses, he clashes with the nihilists, and in the process, his good friend Downey has a heart attack and dies. Everything was like a dream, nothing was obtained, but a friend who was outside the incident died inexplicably, two old bastards had no money to buy him an urn, bought a bucket of milk powder at the convenience store in front of the funeral home, emptied, loaded the ashes to the sea to raise ashes and bury them, but they were blown by a whole strong wind, and the ashes blew Liposky's face.

The old bastard's black humor, like a dream, seems to have returned to the far point, reinvigorated, and continued to live; but everyone knows that the traces left by life cannot be erased. We learn to be optimistic, and maybe that's the trace that life leaves us.

And we learn to be optimistic, maybe this is the trace that life has left us, the audience puts themselves into the perspective of the protagonist, and experiences the sense of emptiness that fate brings to us.