A lot of movies huff and puff to feel up to the minute; Burn After Reading, with great stealth, makes it look easy.
The value of “intelligence” misjudged, resulting in carnage? Check.
Bureaucrats sitting on their hands, waiting to see how matters of life-and-death play out? Check.
Isolation, paranoia, and self-interest verging on solipsism? All on full display.
An audience that wouldn’t have been certain how to take this stuff eight years ago, erupting into bitter, knowing laughter? Yep.
Recommended.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Glad to hear it. The reviews were worrisome.
I adore Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There and Burn After Reading.
I think the rest of their films were made by impostors.
Brad Pitt can be so funny, as long as he's not taking himself too seriously... in any case, it's about time someone made good use of his habitually spastic arm movements
Post a Comment