The Coen Brothers worked with Clooney on this movie, a meditation on herd mentality and greed set in the 1950s. The dialogue isn't up to the standards of the Coen brothers great work, but the symbolism is quite sharp and overall plot well executed. The theme strips bare our prejudices reflecting our current hysteria with Islamophobia. It also exposes that the equality we give lip service to is an impossibility within the myopic web of prejudices and obstacles we create in our social labyrinths of included and excluded. New superstar actor Oscar Isaac has an excellent role as a brazenly inquisitive insurance representative. There is a bitter contrast in the impossible conditions a new minority family face in this pseudo-realistic suburbia vs. the insulated avarice of Damon burning up his bleary-eyed vision of the American Dream. The ending spirals into a carnival of dystopia, similar to the wanton bloodshed of "Fargo". Coens and Clooney spare nearly no one in this corrupt assessment of American culture, be it contemporary, mythic, or residing in the confines of your own four walls... or cranium.
One of my preferred movies from 2017 thus far.
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