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 