“ This world often seems bereft of inherent meaning (though several of the movies take a measure of comfort in simple human decency: The Coens are not nihilists), and it is haunted by evil and death. It’s also a world rife with misunderstandings and poor decision-making—hence, frequently, comedy.
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That’s Slate writer David Haglund, who watched the entire Coen Brothers filmography, finding the above common theme, which is as good a distillation of the directors’ work as you’ll find. If the Coen brothers’ movies feel cold at times, that’s because the WORLD is often so very cold, and knowing there’s a team of filmmakers out there who get that so perfectly is actually quite reassuring.

-DM

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