The Coen brothers throughout make the audience use their minds, and try to guess of the genre that the movie is, Fargo is a traditionally western based movie name, and is used in my westerns, there are viciously graphic murders, makes you think of thriller and quite amusing reminds you of a black comedy, therefore ‘Fargo’ is a hybrid of genre’s, and much of the audience would like that, element to keep them enthralled and guessing to the plot.

‘Fargo’ is also well thought of by many independent filmmakers and ind

Overall ‘Fargo’ is brilliant, with a mixture of enough humour to keep the audience exultant, and enough violence and bloodshed for a ‘lads night in, in front of the box’.

Jerry Lundegaard (William H Macy) is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan to hire two highly erratic and contrasting unlawful characters (Steve Buscemi & Peter Stormare), to kidnap his wife and demand ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires the deadly duo from the frozen northern reaches of Fargo, North Dakota for the job. That's the plan, but what happens is something totally different. Blood is shed when a cop and two innocent people are killed. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is the pregnant police officer that investigates the murders. While Marge investigates, Jerry gets involved in deeper darker problems, ranging from financial troubles, to tormenting meetings with the police and threats from the kidnappers.

Jerry Lundegaard isn’t the most confident of people, and this is evident straight away, he is late whilst meeting the kidnappers and always seems on edge and is apologising to people that he is employing, he allows himself to get bullied by the kidnappers throughout the opening sequence.

Not in any other Coen Brother’s movie have we had such an insight into the humanity of the characters from Marge, the pregnant heroin, who cleverly solves the case, to the ‘kin

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