What truly makes Fargo an "artwork" is the detail and camera work. I was awestruck by the scene when Peggy picks up here Corvair from the body shop as she plans to head to California without her husband and the screen fills with the aquamarine color, matching her blue eyes as she has second doubts about leaving. Just a brilliant scene that is but one of many that captures the essence of Fargo and the Coen brothers work. The characters are enhanced by the landscape of the upper mid-west and the stark loneliness of the winter. You can feel the confusion in Peggy's mind and how she suddenly changes her mind to keep the butcher shop.
Review of The Gift of the Magi
