Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Great soundtrack, great acting, great story, great style... Great absolutely everything, in an honest, unique, humble-but-nonetheless-astounding fashion.
Soundtrack goes between mellow to epic, maintaining an austere, somewhat sorrowful feel throughout (much like the film).
Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare. C'mon. Acting's just great. Unique, helplessly human characters, full of pent-up rage, desperation, ego, and madness.
Story's (apparently) entirely based on a true tale, apart from character names. Unique, sad, funny in an "oh dear god that went to shit fast" kind of way. It's about a desperately broke car salesman who attempts to make some cash by having his wife kidnapped and then taking most of the ransom from her father. Of course, things don't play out that way, and in a bloody swirl lives fall apart and innocents all around drop like flies, obliterated by revolver rounds. Bad ideas lead nowhere good, basically. Just like Breaking Bad, but without as much badassery and more humanity (or lack thereof, rather).
The thing's listed under Comedy. While the Minnesota accents are inexorably amusing (I'm sorry, it's true) and the dialogue is written in such a way that one finds oneself cracking up constantly, the entire film is thoroughly (excuse my French) fucked up. There's nothing funny about it but irony. You will laugh during this film, and then you will feel horrible about yourself, but deep down, guiltily, you value those laughs more than the moral integrity of not giggling at the downfall and end of numerous lies.
Anyway, watch it. I love this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/
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