All throughout this unit I have examined all the films and realized that there hasn't been one that I liked. While this is rare and uncommon for me I do see the reasoning. I'm really into films that have the happy ending and everything turns out well. But what I realized while watching these films is that they really don't and that really makes the movie bad in my eyes. At the end of all them I realized how much of my life had been wasted watching movies that had no good endings and I that left me feeling down.
The most recent film that I can compare to these is The Wrestler. It as well as these had no good ending worth writing about. Randy's daughter never forgives him and he never gets with the stripper who he really likes and we are led to assume that he dies in the end. It was just a long and depressing film that had no good ending because the whole movie your rooting for him to be the guy he wants and time and time again we see that not come true and the film lets us down. It's one of those movies thats supposed to be like realistic, like fairy tales don't really exist and I just didn't like it.
Another element of the films that I didn't like was that they all took place in the middle of no where, this gave us the idea from the beginning that there was just no way out of the situations the characters might get into. I also didn't like how the movies not only are made cheaply but they actually looked cheaped the way that they were filmed. I'm sorry I like the movies that spend and make a lot of money. It makes it more worth my time knowing that this isn't just a film anyone could make with the clothes and special features they used. Overall I would say I'm not a fan of the Coen Brothers and I have yet to see any of their films that I like.
My hope is that this next unit will catch my eye and really keep me intrigued in the dialogue of a foreign film. My hope is that they will have happy endings and it won't be like a dead end movie where you know the endings not good and there is no changing it. Until next time...
