The Viewer Who Knew Just Enough: Point of View in BLOOD SIMPLE
Criterion Originals
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14m
With their razor-sharp debut BLOOD SIMPLE, Joel and Ethan Coen introduced the world to their striking sensibility and redefined film noir for a new generation. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor David Bordwell explores how the brothers employ a sophisticated shuffling of viewpoints in order to generate nonstop suspense and surprise and to create a cool, sometimes comic detachment from the story’s increasingly berserk proceedings.
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