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True Grit

I see this as a fan of the Coen brothers, but not as Unconditional admirers. That A Serious Man (in my own film charts at number 12 2010) was nominated for best film, I was quite surprised. Miller's Crossing I find something such as over-estimated. But the hatred that An (un) Cruelty is moves on to me difficult to understand.

What the Coens particularly appreciate, and which was so prominent now in their young plants No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading , the associated genre analysis, which accounts for their films Sun You look at the genre of their new work environment, invert and pervert the conventions of audience expectation. Ideal conditions for the remake of a western about a 14-year-old Girl who wants revenge?

Maybe ... only we will learn not so fast, because True Grit is so far the most purest film the Coen brothers. Just a pinch of irony in Bridges and Matt Damon's character Marshall, Texas Ranger thickly applied, no pitch-black world view, no room-filling games with the laws of the genre.
That is enormously unfortunate, but worse, that True Grit perfection in his craft as a "normal" Western (if not already Coen typical) is perfect subject content. There is little to total voltage, and the (adult) figures to remain below its potential. For me so far only disappointment in this year's "Best Picture" Oscar field.

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