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Oh come on! A "masterpiece?" If it were, how would you

rate the far more complex, nuanced, and satisfying "Fargo?"
We are set up--- remember the sheriff's story about the lawman shot from the porch?--- for a reckoning that never arrives. Now, evil may triumph but a lawman whose cowardice leads to a woman's brutal, cold-blooded murder? That's nihilism and I don't like it.
"Fargo" was just as brutal, more realistic, but it didn't leave one with the feeling that evil wins out, that even the best of men must genuflect to evil incarnate.
Imagine, if you will, Gary Cooper's sheriff in "High Noon," scooping up Grace Kelly and decamping before the showdown. Or "Shane" deciding that he's just going to wander on after hearing about the brutal Jack Palance.
Sorry, I don't need a happy ending but this one was false to the expectations it raised.
"False Expectations" would have been a better title.


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