I flat out love Coen brothers movies. They've got violence in all the right places and their characters are very three dimensional and stick with you. For example the characters from Fargo, although a little exaggerated at times, very much reflect the style of that region and i promise you after watching Fargo you'll go home repeating "Norm made me eggs!". This is a technique used allot in Coen brothers films. They enjoy taking one type of region or culture and exaggerating it and making it their own. One key scene i'd like to take a look at is from Raising Arizona when HI is fighting Leonard Smalls. In this scene you can really see how HI and Leonard reflect each other. They even end up having the same tattoo. This scene is like many scenes and many Coen films because many of their "good" characters reflect their "bad" characters. This reveal of the protagonist and antagonist being closer than you'd think shows how the difference between good and evil is so thin.
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