Originally Posted by
WhyFi
This, too, is sitting on my server (I probably have 400+ movies, about half of them unwatched - it's a problem), but it's near the very top of the queue (I haven't had an opportunity/right mood confluence in the last two weeks). The tone - is it kind of morose? I'm wondering if I should have the wife watch it too, but she definitely prefers... well, she doesn't like depressing ****.
...it could be depressing if you let it. Certainly it is set in a very bleak, New York winter.
I think I just so identified with a lot of it from back in my 60's-70's starving artist days that
I came near to peeing myself with laughter in a couple of places. But the Coens are not noted
for upbeat films. This was probably the only one of their movies i've seen that lacked both
violence and blood. It's just really hilarious if you've ever tried to make a living at the arts.