![]() ![]() I felt after viewing that with its many clues it would open itself to multiple interpretations, especially among film studies. It marries art and realism into a whirlwind of what transpires in literary form and what is really going on. “ Barton Fink” is a film that in many ways defies classification. Fink then proceeds to encounter writers block thru most of the movie. As we creep into the script’s clues, it paints a context beneath its shell. However, this becomes an instant contradiction as he carriess on about his style, and seemingly narcissistic view of himself. Fink makes claim as to being able to relate to and write about the “common man”. The relationship between the 2 invoke many changing viewpoints between the situations and out-come of the film. He also discovers that the place only consist of 1 neighbor Charlie Meadows who Barton befriends almost instantly. He begins his stay at a very artsy deco sort of hotel that appears almost haunting in some sense. This respect at times becomes almost too favorable for comfort telling fink everything he’d like to hear. Lipnick for some unknown reason seems to adore Fink’s writing and respects his creativity. Lipnick represents everything Fink isn’t in an almost stereotypical extremist sort of way. a chance to write for the Capital Pictures with a well funded salary in place.īarton soon picks up and heads to Hollywood to make movie scripts for his new boss Jack Lipnick. This escalates into an offer that seems to good to be true…. Not having earned his reputation yet with a history of work, he begins to believe the sudden hype set upon him. It starts like many of its assumed era, with a simple story about a simple playwright who found success only after one highly regarded Broadway play (Bare Ruined Choirs). It, like a few others seems to embrace its earlier time period with a solid set and an aura of credibility. “Barton Fink” is one such piece that is set in year 1941. The Coen Brothers love their period pieces. It was only “now” that I decided to give the full film a complete run seeing that in the past I never really made it past the first half hour. The film harnessing a subtle Lynchian approach wears its skin pretty tightly for most of the movie. “ Barton Fink” wears a title that on first appearance seems bland, ordinary… perhaps, even somewhat boring to the causal viewer. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.įrom the often intricate minds of the Coen Brothers comes another darkly ambiguous film that will most certainly stay with you long after you’ve shared in the experience. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer’s block. The first time I saw it, it left me drained, mind spinning, hands shaking, barely able to reach for the remote to rewind it to watch it again.In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. ![]() ![]() The last twenty minutes are about the most powerful I have ever seen in anything, at the end of almost every scene I thought it could end there and be an amazing film, yet each further scene only added further depth and poignancy. A lack of any underlying morality, an absence of absolutes of right and wrong, good and bad, give this film a unique feeling that it could go anywhere. Deep insight into the nature of the creative spirit, a plethora of fine performances bringing at first stereotypical characters to full life (despite the unreal, fable-like atmosphere created by the slimy, glistening colours reminiscent of the films of Jeunet&Caro.), and many moments of hilarity make this a perfect movie, one I would not hesitate in recommending to anyone despite the fairly high probability they will hate it. I am absolutely amazed at the fantastic taste of the imdb readership, having loved this film for years and always been told by people I'd told about it and persuaded to watch that it was no good, I finally find some other people out there who love it as much as me, posting (mostly) extremely positive comments.This is a fabulous film, dripping with a brooding, sticky atmosphere that draws you in to the clammy world of Barton Fink, sat in his hotel room listening to the creaking of the wallpaper as it dribbles moistly from the walls, searching for inspiration in his tacky painting and dusty typewriter.Perhaps it is a little dark for some tastes, but as black comedy goes this is the blackest and the most biting there is, the Hollywood system and New York theatrical snobbery lampooned with equal viciousness. ![]()
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