The Man Who Wasnt There starring
Billy Bob Thornton, Frances
McDormand, Michael Badalucco,
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Man Who Wasnt There starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael
Badalucco, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
For all of its late-1940s cold war paranoia, pulp fiction dialogue, and
frenzied greed, Joel and Ethan Coens The Man Who Wasnt There is their
most cool and collected film since Blood Simple. An unassuming barber
with a scheming wife (Frances McDormand) and a serious smoking habit,
Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is an onlooker to his own life, a ghostly
presence set against a silver-toned film noir backdrop. Only when he
decides to alter his fate by blackmailing his wifes lover (James Gandolfini)
in order to invest with a traveling salesman (Jon Polito) touting the wave of
the future--dry cleaning--do we begin to hear the full extent of Eds
understated, existential lament. As his lawyer (Tony Shalhoub) says in Eds
defense at his eventual trial for murder, He is modern man. Thorntons
deadpan eloquence and cinematographer Roger Deakinss precision
lighting offer the perfect counterbalance to the requisite one-liners, plot
twists, and false endings that have come to characterize recent Coen
brothers films. Almost in spite of the obsessive cultural references (flying
saucers, Nabokovs Lolita, Heisenbergs uncertainty principle), Ed Crane
steps neatly from the fray as one of cinemas most memorably
disenchanted characters. --Fionn Meade
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