Burn After Reading
This was a favorite of E and I’s from our one and only watch a decade ago and we threw it on for E’s birthday for a revisit, and were surprised at how much less impressed we were the second time around. Have our tastes changed that much? Are our standards higher? More mature? Hard to say, but it is fascinating how our perception of art can change over time. Burn After Reading is certainly worth a watch if you’ve never seen it, particularly if you’re a Coen fan, as it still has its moments, a good amount of humor, and an all-time stacked cast. By the end of the movie, the plot; however, will have you asking “what was the point of all that”? And believe or not, for the Coen’s twisted minds, that is the point.
-Z
