Everything about this film is first class, the direction, the sets the acting, the Coens make make very good films. However I still wonder what this all adds up to? The film is clearly some sort of satire or ridicule of a certain type of left leaning 1930's playwright like Maxwell Anderson or Clifford Odets. These guys were intellectuals writing about the "common man." Plays like Winterset or Golden Boy look kind of corny and pretentious with their concern for the "little people." But these plays are a product of a time and the Coens ridicule of these authors seems a little mean spirited.
The shots at old fashioned Hollywood studio executives also seem like pretty easy targets as well. Does anyone doubt that a Harry Cohn or a Louis B Mayer hard nosed studio executives were kind of monsters when it came to producing films? Is this really a big insight?
Still, Barton Fink is a well made film, if a pointless one.
116 minutes.
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