Review of The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) by Scott G — 25 Jan 2008

The coens, do film noir, and filmed in moody black and white, with thornton as a guy, of little words, pushed into murder and blackmail, when a business oportunity arises around same time he thinks his wife is cheating on him with her boss, very dark, but with all coen trademarks, more blood simple than raising arizona, and certainly not the first coens film anyone should be intrduced to, but for coen fans its a classic, thornton is superb, smoking his cigerettes, and like the coens other film big lebouski, a charactor goes on the case, not fully functioning, and its great to watch, coens regular frances mcdormond is great as the wife, james gandolfini as the boss, also superb, tony sherolub, having most fun with coen dialogue as lawyer, and scarlett johanson, in early role as a gifted kid, thrtons voice over also great and along with music by carter burwell, a good desision, watching end see if you can figure ut maybe a bigger meaning to it all, with a flying saucer,as a clue as to what it actually is about, a great adition to the cooens work.