Raising Arizona

Great characters. Great performance. Great direction. But not great script !

Some of this script's points were weak. For example; this mad max's biker.. how come that he felt afraid of the police to run away from them like the way he did in the rich man's office? Or how this rich man himself forgave the 2 leads this easy at last? And how oh how a character like H.I. (played by Nicolas Cage) writes a letter as sweet and literate as the one he wrote to his wife at night ? And where did this very letter go in the first place ? So how he was speaking to himself in so refined style, in the end, saying things like "the way I flee from reality" ??!! I didn't buy that the 2 fugitives return to the jail by their free well like that either ?? And the whole sequence of the biker getting exploded looked fabricated and insert so the movie can sound enough Hollywood!

On the other hand, I didn't think that I may find a Nicolas Cage's early movie where he acts as beautiful as this. (Holy Hunter) was having this magical sparkle, blessing us with so cute presence and acting. The comedy was so right at places; like the long hilarious sequence of stealing the diapers; which reminded me of the highest silent comedies, being the best of this movie's time.

After 20 years; still the west is an important place for The Coen brothers, still the unsuccessful criminal is an interesting character for them, and still their special taste of melancholia is present (the killer of everything young, losing the babies in accidents,..) yet more existent and without any diluents.

It's the (Coen)'s own world, and at its most saccharine moments this time (there is no satirical message). Generally, I think that the Coens had to make this kind of light movies every now and then like (The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty) to earn some audience, some money, more technicality and most of all the majors' confidence so they can make their very own, real whacky, pieces like (Fargo, The Man who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men..).

It's a comedy to laugh. Maybe it says something about being satisfied with whatever God preordain. With a message about being optimistic as well; to turn our incapacity into hopeful dreams (something I bet the 2 brothers were insisting on assuring it for themselves at the moment, as enthusiastic newcomer movie makers). And although it gives great feeling while it's on, but just these previous points weaken it in the final analysis. Fun to experience anyhow.. Also I recommended Download Free Kickin It Old Skool Movie

This comedy is in the style of others by the Coens (The Big Lebowski and The Ladykillers in particular), only much faster, with one gag following another. It conveys a typical feeling of coldness, just as everything were built and invented with no real inspiration, by just sitting at a table and squeezing into the thing as many brilliant details as a barely 90 minutes long movie can bear. I don't deny that the result is pretty enjoyable, but all the stuff that you have to go through while a credible setting is built out of nothing in the first 30 minutes is as terrifying as Fargo was... you are not even able to smile at it, you are just horrified by this depiction of the squalor of life in "deep" America. After the first minutes you can relax and enjoy a slapstick comedy brilliantly developed and brought to its end. But I don't think this is intellectually superior to any other comedy just because it is by the Coens. I am not surprised at all by the fact that these guys became star-filmmakers in Europe because of much appreciation by the French, who are always appealed by extremely intellectual wit but are never bothered by emptiness of meaning.. Also I recommended Download Free The Avenging Angel Movie