Burnafter reading movie#
No one in the movie responds to anyone else. The father, however, has had a stroke and can’t respond. analyst who has been canned for drinking, unburdens himself to his father. The Coens dramatize their point of view in a brief scene in which John Malkovich’s Osborne Cox, an irascible, Princeton-educated C.I.A. The one person who falls truly in love gets nowhere. They throw themselves into adultery but get little pleasure out of it, not even the excitement of betrayal. The characters-Washington types, in and out of government-are all egotists who think they know how the world works yet miss the most obvious signals. “Burn After Reading” has plenty of momentum-short, tight-knit scenes of people arguing, driving, screwing, fighting-and, if you listen hard, you may hear echoes of a portentous old Capitol Hill drama like “Advise and Consent.” But those echoes are stifled by a farce plot so bleak and unfunny that it freezes your responses after about forty-five minutes. The new Coen brothers picture, “Burn After Reading,” is a very black comedy set in a blanched, austere-looking Washington, D.C.-an uninspiring and uncomfortable place in which everyone betrays everyone else, and the emotional tone veers from icy politeness to spitting rage and back again.
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