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Posted at November 27, 2014, 11:18 pm:



"Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!"

Barton Fink

Okay, just watched this for the first time in a really long while. I loved it. Might just be the best Coen Brothers flick to date. For some reason the whole thing didn't really hit me the first time through. This time, though, everything clicked.

Cryptic clues and enigmatic twists gallore - They all amount to a ton of unanswered questions. Those Coen bastards will have me dreaming about this movie for the rest of the week. This mystery adds to the film's allure, I think. But, all the same, I would like some of those questions answered. I have theories, but I want to hear some of yours. Specifically...

1. Is the hotel Hell? Is Charlie The Devil?
I think it might be. But it seems to me that all of LA is Barton's personal hell. He's stuck there for who knows how long, writing about trash that'll never see the light of day and he'll have to live with the fact that he's responsible for the deaths of innocent people.

And I'm almost positive that Charley, after watching the flick a couple of times, merely works for Satan.

2. What's with the shoes?
I don't know

3. What do Nazism and WW2 have to do with anything?
Uh, I don't know this one, either. Why does Charley say 'Heil Hitler' before killing the second cop? What does Fink's Judaism mean? AAAAH! Those crazy Coens!

4. What's with the bird at the end?
He was finally in the picturesque world he longed for. It was almost like Fink escaped Hell, only to be reminded he's still in it. I think.

5. And, It's her head in the box, right?
Well... Isn't it?!


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