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After Five Seasons of ‘Fargo,’ Noah Hawley Is Still Rooting for America
Death, violence, and moral corruption aren't just slapstick props in these films, but agonizingly real presences, and their comedy isn't a release from horror but a confrontation with it.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more
Zach Baron • Martin Scorsese: “I Have to Find Out Who the Hell I Am”
All of this may be “entertaining in its own right” (lively, funny, described in vivid language, etc.) but is not “advancing the story in a non-trivial way.” When a story is “advanced in a non-trivial way,” we get the local color and something else. The characters go into the scene in one state and leave in another. The story becomes a more particul
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
That’s what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size.