![]() ![]() What motivates each of these characters to act the way they do? Do any of them have honorable motives? Can we learn anything from characters who behave poorly, who don't have honorable motives?. ![]() But even if that's too much to swallow, there's no denying that it's a deliriously funny and delightful comedy for grown-ups, another exceptional movie from a creative team that seems boundlessly skilled and imaginative no matter what genre they're working in. ![]() Yes, humanity is portrayed as being self-centered and corrupt, not to mention totally dimwitted, but that would certainly track with the biblical teaching that none are righteous, that the human heart is a factory of idols, that apart from Christ we are foolish and silly creatures? One could argue that the Coens are just being honest about the nature of man-and the wages of sin, as almost all of these characters are undone by their own folly. Many have accused the Coens of being misanthropes, and that criticism will surely be thrown at them again here, but this is, in some ways, to miss the point. Simmons) trying to watch all the action, completely dumbfounded and generally speechless.īut is there really nothing to learn? Is it just the Coens indulging in the goodwill afforded by their own celebrity? Actually, there is some wisdom to be gleaned, albeit very dark. And so, a bizarre and beguiling web of betrayal and deceit, malice, and downright stupidity, follows with a pair of CIA superiors (David Rasche and Juno's J.K. See, Osborne's overbearing wife (Tilda Swinton) is involved with a man named Harry (George Clooney), who happens to be involved with Linda as well. It's an absurd and imaginative comedy of errors, but it's also, well, a sex comedy-and yes, very much for grown-ups only. Ever ambitious-and, in Linda's case, desperate to afford some plastic surgery so she can win a man-the two take to blackmailing Agent Cox, which, as he exasperatedly but rightly points out, puts them in way over their heads. Trouble is, he's a little careless with his top-secret documents, which end up in the hands of two bumbling, buffoonish gym employees, Chad (Brad Pitt) and Linda (Frances McDormand, wife of Joel Coen). John Malkovich stars as Osborne Cox, a recently fired spy who decided to dedicate his newfound free time to writing his memoirs. Burn is one of their more outlandish and silly farces-a glorious send-up of CIA paranoia in particular, and the foibles of human greed and foolishness more generally. ![]()
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