Burn After Reading

Saturday night Devin and I stayed in and watched a movie. Specifically, we watched Burn After Reading. It's a Coen brothers movie starring Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, John Malcovich and many more. And it was excellent.

Now I am not always one for the Coen brothers, but this movie was top-notch. It was funny and interesting, and surprising, and complicated (in that it had many threads, but not complicated in that it was fairly straightforward to follow). It was the best time I have had watching a movie in a long time. That feeling that you have when you just get lost in a good movie, without worrying about the deeper meaning, or the message, but when the quality of the movie-making is so good that you never leave the world created by the film. And even though the movie is completely unbelievable, you are more than willing to suspend you belief and enter into their world (unlike many box office movies which are entertaining, but where you are constantly aware of how derived the plot and the characters are, taking away from your enjoyment).

Plus the acting and the story were fabulous. And I don't know much about movie-making, but seeing as how it was a Coen brothers film, I imagine that the lighting and camera work and cinematography etc. were excellent too.

So in conclusion - four stars (out of four).