Review of The Ladykillers (2004) by Davey M — 01 Feb 2009

The Coen Brothers are devastatingly in charge again in this film and their humour is more than black, blacker than black, a blacker shade of black, especially since the main heroin is black and the sheriff is black and the essential member of the gang, the inner agent of the operation, is black too.

Black humour indeed. But Jewish humour as you can't even imagine. The humour of influencing people with effete verbosity, with elaborate totally unbelievable lies that are all the more believable because they are unbelievable.

People only believe what is unbelievable and everything that is logical, predictable, obviously evident will be rejected without even being considered because all that is obvious can only be false. Isn't it why they did not believe in Auschwitz even when they were arrived? Jewish too their humour because it is shown from the only point of view of the leader who sees every event as a new difficulty and he is so relieved when finally his last accomplice falls into the trash boat after this last accomplice of his has killed himself convinced as he was that the gun was empty.

It is so good when it stops, when the raven flying out of Edgar Allen Poe crosses the sky over his head and he jubilates then because he misinterpret the omen: the beginning of his own end whereas he thought it was the beginning of the end of it all, except of course himself.

And he was rich. The punch line for him is a real punch line falling from the sky, hard and stony, deadly and fatal. And what his that poor black woman going to do with 1.6 million dollars? Even the sheriff tells her what the effete PhD had told her: no one cares because the insurance is going to pay anyway.

So what is she going to do with all that money? And that is the last straw that breaks the camel's back, the drop of water falling into the sea that causes a tsunami, a tidal wave of the old times.

It makes the whole film a farce of divine, celestial and even cosmic dimension. Stealing is covered by insurance contracts and the victims are just nearly congratulated with insurance money that looks like some kind of a reward for them having been robbed.

So go on robbing the rich and businesspeople that deal with too much money. Anyway we pay we have paid, through our own insurance premiums what they will be compensated with. So at least let us get what we are paying for, once in a while.

Very black Jewish humour. If it did not exist we would have to invent it. Thank you so much, Coen Brothers.