While many will call No Country for Old Men the masterpiece of the Coens I would disagree. Fargo, while perhaps to not as masterful in all of its skill is a far more engaging, well paced, and ultimately touching meditation of life, greed, and happiness. What stands strong in all Coen movies is the use of dark humor and here we see it played out wonderfully with employing Buscemi as the loud mouth bad guy and Frances McDormand as the candy-sweet hearted officer Marge Gunderson. Both of these first-rate actors pull off astoundingly sincere performances in making their over-the-top characters into realistic portraits of the two sides of humanity. Here, I believe, is the Coen's true masterpiece.
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