Aside from the story itself the film has great visuals, some amazing one liners and incredible acting performances - especially considering the lengths actors went to in order to get into character for just a 20 minutes segment of a film. It could also have ended with a different short as the 5th story for me (and the gold panning segment) was arguably the best. But the subversion of that expectation I also admire, my brain was just full of the interesting situations that could have unfolded had these characters come into contact with each other - as per a Tarantino film. I understand these shorts are independent of one another but had they intersected in some way I think there could have been a much more satisfying conclusion. Each of the stories are completely contained and the final short was one of the most disappointing for me ending in quite an anticlimax. What was slightly disappointing was its lack of continuity. Stories unfolded in the way only a Coen brother's film could - a style that I have always admired. Each story was completely different from the one either side of it and none were short of originality. During their introduction they mentioned how they wrote each chapter as a series of shorts over 25 years, and it certainly felt like this both in good ways and bad. I was fortunate enough to see this at the LFF with the Coen brothers present.
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