Blood Simple, the
Coen brothers first foray into their surrealistic and black comedy laden
feature film universe comes together as a rousing success. Blood Simple follows the very staples of the genre they have
patented which includes heavy doses of dark comedy, mistaken identity, and
deliciously ironic endings. The story follows Julian a small town bar owner and
his maniac selfish pursuits of murdering his wife Abby and her lover Ray (coincidentally
a bar tender at Julian’s establishment). However things go awry when the hit
men Visser decides to murder Julian after deceiving him into thinking he had
committed the murders. As simple as this would sound it isn’t as the title
would aptly indicate.
