Saturday, September 11, 2010

Learn About The Motion Picture Fargo

By Gary Rosa

An assumption could be made, that if you were reading this article, you are either a fan of the film or you have yet to see the movie "Fargo" and are wondering if this flick is actually worth your time. Well, if the second is you, than it most certainly is and you will be better informed as to why as this article progresses.

One of the best ways that this can be done, is by simply walking you through the plot of the film. While, for the sake of space and time you cannot be let in on every detail, you will get a synopsis that is worthwhile and might encourage you to watch this movie, if you have not gotten around to it yet. Let it be known, this will likely contain spoilers, so be prepared.

The film is set around a man that is in desperate need of money, and hatches a plan for two men to kidnap his wife in order to collect ransom money from his wife's well to do father. Jerry, the husband is a shady car dealer with a checkered past of bad car deals and numerous methods to make a quick buck.

A short time after the two men set out to do what was asked of them, Jerry learns that through another business venture that he had tried to get going, he was not going to need the money from a ransom after all and tries to call off the kidnapping with no success. The next scene features the two men, very awkwardly kidnapping Jerry's wife, Jean.

While the original plan between the three men at the start of the film was to ask the father for 80,000, Jerry decides that he will tell his father in law that the kidnappers have ransomed out his daughter for a cool million. He agrees to pay the money, but he refuses not to hand it to the crooks himself. So Wade, Jean's father, sets off with the money aiming to kill the kidnappers with his sidearm and get his daughter back without losing a cent.

It doesn't go exactly as planned though, and Wade ends up very dead and Carl, one of the kidnappers ends up seriously wounded (having been shot in the jaw). But, Carl escapes with the money and he soon learns it is much more than 80,000. He buries the rest and take the money back to his partner at their isolated cabin. There, Carl learns that Jean, Jerry's wife is now dead at the hands of Carl's partner in crime. They argue, and Carl winds up dead too.

The police arrest the other, as well as Jerry for orchestrating the whole thing. The film is a depiction of the debauchery of money, the deadly levels that it can drive people to. Powerful performances take this film from being good to being exceptionally great. Performances from William H. Macy (Jerry) and Steve Buschemi as one of the kidnappers.

So, to learn about this film "Fargo", you had to learn the plot a little better. Hopefully, this article was some help towards that end, though there is much more to see and appreciate on your own concerning the film. So if you haven't seen it, you really should. - 40723

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