Adulterous Small Town Grifters in Over Their Heads
Kárhozat (1987, dir. Tarr Béla, Hungary)
The heroes always disintegrate, and they disintegrate the same way. If they didn’t, it wouldn’t be disintegration, but revival.
Blood Simple (1984, dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen, USA)
Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else . . . that’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, an’ down here . . . you’re on your own.
Erik M. Bachman 