Hey everybody, welcome to another commission podcast. This time we're going to be talking about the 1991 Cohen Brothers film, Barton Fink, graciously commissioned by Anthony Bassich. I hope I'm pronouncing your name. I actually looked it up and got a little, because I was going to say Bassiche. And maybe if you're a Frenchman, that's the correct pronunciation,

but I'm going to Bassich. So this is an interesting film and I feel like there's a

lot to say about it.

It's one of the Cohen Brothers films where it's a lot, it's very easy to take on multiple levels.

There's a lot of symbolism, a lot of crazy stuff, a lot of symbolism a lot of crazy stuff a lot of funny stuff

Traditionally my I like to Cohen brothers when they're just really serious

You know when they're talking about no country for old men we got Fargo not that there's no

moments of levity in there but you can easily pin that as a drama or like them when they're

really funny like raising Arizona I think they're less

successful for me because you know if you've listened to a lot of our podcast one of my

big bugaboos is tonal shifts total inconsistencies and Barton Fink comes very close to getting in that valley with me

because it starts off as a very broad comedy

and it increasingly turns dark and then takes a supernatural

twist at the end and it left me really especially the ending I got to say I

really hated how the movie ended.

You hated how it ended, huh?

Yeah.

And it's nothing about how ambiguous it was or that there's a lot of open questions I just I don't know that saying I like the

film is very entertaining I'm glad I saw it and I have a lot to say about it. What did you think about the film?

I thought it was one of the more interesting Cohen works that I've seen. I haven't seen all

of their stuff. I thought I had seen this but I was actually thinking of another John Tetero playwright movie called Cradle Rock

Which was a very serious take on

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