Gerry Lundegaard is a big car salesman in Minneapolis. It seems he will be exposed to a major financial crisis exposed to many debts that he could not get rid of them. In order to repay his debts, Gerry rented two thugs to kidnap his wife and get money from her rich father. In fact, Gerry got a ransom paid by his stepfather to thugs who gave her part of Jerry and took the rest. When the thugs shoot one of the soldiers after the kidnapping, it will turn into intense violence and angry anger that turned into a disaster that caused murder and severe crime. A clever police officer from Minnesota will intervene, a man known for his stubbornness in solving those criminal cases that no one could solve..
You have to grant the Coens their due as creators of suspense, mood and plotting, and for their ability to color the most monstrous crimes with an undeniably funny sense of the absurd.
Fargo, with its grotesque murders and cheery detectives, is a cold gem that takes us to the far north. Its seemingly pitiless light opens up the realms of darkness concealed beneath that world of white.
Returning to the horror-comic vein that launched their careers, director Joel Coen and producer Ethan Coen pepper their new picture with so much humor that the occasional bursts of sheer mayhem seem more ridiculous than revolting.
A few scenes go around in circles, as if snow-blind, and the humor may be too inward and contorted for some tastes. But McDormand brings order to the weirdness and warms it up.
McDormand is brilliant, Macy terrific, Presnell perfect, Buscemi fabulous. And Stormare is fascinating as one of the deadliest and most horrid big-screen killers in recent memory. Fargo is a down-and-dirty doozy.