I'm completely tired of people who think films should only have black or white characters, people who think films should not show racism, homophobia, stupid people, like that is not...the fu****' real world? That's why I think I like this much. It's not afraid to shock and it's not afraid to make you think. Good people make some bad things. Bad people make some good things. People can change. I know this is a lot for this new world order where you are right 100% of the time or wrong 100% of the time, but this is what being human means.
It's curious because even if I feel those grey areas gave the film a really strong plausibility quality, at the same time I feel this town has a huge number of ignorant and fool people. Maybe too many? I don't know. I felt I can perfectly understand why McDormand accepted this role, as this seems to be written by her husband and his brother, with that blend of comedy and drama that it makes it really unique.
By the way, speaking about McDormand...what a stupendously enormous interpretation. One of the best acts I've ever seen and she won the day immediately on her very first confrontation with the priest. What a woman, what an actress! Very strong performance from all the cast - Sam Rockwell starts as a racist+homophobic Dewey and transforms himself through the film in an incredible way; Woody Harrelson was phenomenal when in scene and Peter Dinklage and Clarke Peters even with less time, had time and space to shine.
Loved the soundtrack of this, the score, the editing and how McDonagh was courageous and unafraid directing all these elements, being provocative and putting us in many shoes (and minds) that we probably didn't want to be.
I think it's easy to say I would like to see some kind of a different ending, but I must admit that you need balls to go this way and, after thinking about it, I can totally understand the decision. It makes sense. After all, this was never about the investigation or finding who did it. It was all about the characters, these ugly and/or traumatised bast****, how they can grow as people and how they can overcome their trauma.
It's curious because even if I feel those grey areas gave the film a really strong plausibility quality, at the same time I feel this town has a huge number of ignorant and fool people. Maybe too many? I don't know. I felt I can perfectly understand why McDormand accepted this role, as this seems to be written by her husband and his brother, with that blend of comedy and drama that it makes it really unique.
By the way, speaking about McDormand...what a stupendously enormous interpretation. One of the best acts I've ever seen and she won the day immediately on her very first confrontation with the priest. What a woman, what an actress! Very strong performance from all the cast - Sam Rockwell starts as a racist+homophobic Dewey and transforms himself through the film in an incredible way; Woody Harrelson was phenomenal when in scene and Peter Dinklage and Clarke Peters even with less time, had time and space to shine.
Loved the soundtrack of this, the score, the editing and how McDonagh was courageous and unafraid directing all these elements, being provocative and putting us in many shoes (and minds) that we probably didn't want to be.
I think it's easy to say I would like to see some kind of a different ending, but I must admit that you need balls to go this way and, after thinking about it, I can totally understand the decision. It makes sense. After all, this was never about the investigation or finding who did it. It was all about the characters, these ugly and/or traumatised bast****, how they can grow as people and how they can overcome their trauma.