Fargo - Life's More Than Cash

(1996) ★★★☆☆

'There's more to life than a little money'. Sure, it's damn right, but some just don't get it. They'd still do crazy stuff for a little sum of money. They'd kill in cold blood. It's a movie, yet based on a true event. Creepily funny!

Jerry, a car salesman, hires two criminals, Carl and Gaear, to kidnap his wife, Jean, so as to get some money from his well-off father-in-law, Wade, to pay off his own debts. He asks for one million but he only, as a matter of fact, promises to give those two 40 thousand each. So to Jerry's mind's eye, the plan is supposed to be like, kidnap Jean, tell Wade that the kidnappers demand one million as the ransom, give Carl and Gaear 80 thousand, and keep the rest. What a simple, perfect plan by a simple-minded man! Things could've been smooth had Wade not decided to take over the show? You really think so, huh? Believe it or not, people do bloody deeds sometimes for no reason at all. 'A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere'. Well, 'the middle of nowhere' is not necessarily a prerequisite for evils.

One of the best things, I guess, Fargo presents is the fact that reality at times could be as ridiculous and insensible as a dark crime thriller like this just made to entertain us, fucking boring imbeciles. How could a man do some shit like that to those innocent souls for just 40 thousand? How could he be so cold-blooded? Where's his conscience anyway? Maybe I shouldn't have sounded like a good guy here, coz I watched it, even with laughs at some points. Shame on me!