Have you ever seen a movie without actually seeing it?
I have never actually sat down to watch Fargo but it as like I had seen the entire film before.
Anyway, Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) has a money making idea, but needs a bunch of money to get it started - so he decides to have his wife kidnapped in order for his rich father-in-law to pay the fake ransom and therefore, front the money for his idea.
He hires a pair of crazy criminals, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife - in return he would give them a small fee and a car.
Of course, everything goes wrong. The pair of criminals go on a sudden killing spree and all hell basically breaks loose.
Everything would be fine for the group of criminals if it wasn't for small-town cop Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), who takes it upon herself to solve the murders of the town, and leads her to Jerry and the kidnapping.
Like I said, I felt as if I had seen all of this before, I knew basically everything that was going to happen - but still it was great to finally see it.
Buscemi was, as always, amazing. And McDormand, who has never really resonated with me before, was brilliant in this role.
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