Comedies are fun, but they can also be dangerous. This is what a peripheral character in the Cohen Brothers new classic from the last year. His inclusion on this list will soon become apparent. Also, this will include some spoilers, so read at your own risk. This is the fate of one man who dared to be nice in the film...
Burn After Reading
The film involves a middle-aged woman who is obsessed with getting plastic surgery in order to look younger. When her HMO refuses to pay, she seeks other ways. Her and her friend (Brad Pitt) discover some government documents on a disk and see dollar signs. All the while, the guy who lost it is mad, as are the people behind the scenes. All this goes on while the people are not exactly doing their jobs all that well. Their boss puts up with it, because he has a giant crush on the woman. This won't end well, will it?
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Skipping past a lot (you should see it all though), things only get worse and people get crazier. Like any film of this nature, Burn does escalating insanity quite well. Near the high-point of this, the manager tries to put an end to the whole thing by just getting the disk. He sneaks into the man's house and nearly gets out, before he is caught by the C.I.A. agent. He gets attacked in the street with an axe and cut to pieces (not shown in full). So, to review, the man who did nothing but like the woman who did all the bad deeds is hacked to death. The woman is not.
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Up next, a man commits the cardinal crime of wanting to have sex with his girlfriend. Stay tuned...
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