I'm so predisposed to love this flick, considering the actors (Plaza), the director (Coen), the style (funny and violent), the subject (detective noir) - like the movie was made for me! - but the end spins totally out of control, has no style or grace, and looking back overall this movie lacks the exposition and character development that would've brought off any kind of ending at all.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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