The same can be said of the four main actors: Getz and McDormand (soon to be Mrs. This has since become a trademark of the two brothers, and it is as fresh and original now as it was back in 1984. In a way, this is a film that is aware of its own fictitious nature and toys with it as much as possible - because it can. Noir, straightforward thriller, horror, black comedy: Blood Simple is each of these and all of them at once, but the transition is never forced or unnatural in fact, these transitions occur because somehow the story itself demands that they happen. This escalation is matched by the Coens' constant shifts between genres, achieved through lighting, music and camera movements. That is, until the investigator goes rogue and the situation escalates in the most grotesque of ways. Emmett Walsh) to spy on them to carry out some twisted plan of his own. On the contrary, he hires a sleazy PI (M. However, the two adulterous lovers (Jamie Getz and Frances McDormand) do not plan to assassinate the betrayed husband (Dan Hedaya). Set in a stark Texas landscape, Blood Simple opens on a premise that seems to be borrowed from the likes of Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice: someone steals another man's wife.
As far as directorial debuts go, few are as ambitious and inventive as the Coen brothers' first film, Blood Simple, as it mixes genres and moods in a way that anticipated Tarantino's similar experiments by a decade, while still retaining an apparent simplicity, both narratively and formally, that few people originally saw as the beginning of one of American cinema's most extraordinary careers.
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