{"id":172,"date":"2003-09-10T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T02:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2003-09-10T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T02:59:46","slug":"fargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Fargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never really liked the movies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/x-stream.fortunecity.com\/fleetst\/71\/\">Coen Brothers<\/a>. All their films are formally exquisite, but way too snide and condescending, in an annoyingly facile and self-congratulatory way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009W5CA\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Fargo<\/em><\/a> is probably their best film; I can&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t enjoy it, and they maintained a better balance between suspense and sarcasm than they usually do. But it still feels slick and empty afterwards. Maybe I&#8217;m just being a curmudgeon about Joel and Ethan Coen; everyone else seems to love them. But something just doesn&#8217;t connect for me; it&#8217;s not that I object to cynicism, necessarily, but it annoys me how the Coens are too cynical to even own up to the consequences of their own cynicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never really liked the movies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/x-stream.fortunecity.com\/fleetst\/71\/\">Coen Brothers<\/a>. All their films are formally exquisite, but way too snide and condescending, in an annoyingly facile and self-congratulatory way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009W5CA\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Fargo<\/em><\/a> is probably their best film; I can&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t enjoy it, and they maintained a better balance between suspense and sarcasm than they usually do. But it still feels slick and empty afterwards. Maybe I&#8217;m just being a curmudgeon about Joel and Ethan Coen; everyone else seems to love them.But something just doesn&#8217;t connect for me; it&#8217;s not that I object to cynicism, necessarily, but it annoys me how they are too cynical to even own up to their own cynicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}