Blood Simple begins with stark photography of remote Texan locales. Moments later, some quasi-philosophical narration enters with a disembodied voice opining that everyone is ultimately out for themselves. The narrator, as the audience soon finds out, is none other than one of the film's central characters. It's a bleak but captivating opening to a seriously compelling film whose 90-or-so minutes whizz by like a tumbleweed caught in high winds. What an entrance.
This shot recurs soon after as Sam Art Williams' character Maurice, one of the film's few purely noble types and Marty's second-in-command at the seedy establishment he owns, navigates the bar to operate the jukebox. The device recurs multiple times as the film gathers steam as well and serves to either partially or fully mask the true nature of each chief character. Motivations are obscured and full intentions internalized.
'Blood Simple's Suspense Is Straight Out of a Horror Flick The tension in Blood Simple is so palpable you can feel it seeping through the screen. The atmosphere seethes with portent, and every two-hander scene is swelteringly ominous. As the skies darken from day to evening, the fear of impending night and what it may bring settles heavily. And some of the night scenes are truly chilling.
Come morning, with the situation considerably worse, the would-be couple are forced to contend with unplanned bloodshed and general life-threatening mayhem of the highest and most hair-raising order. Towards the shattering finale, Abby sees a ghostly Marty in a nightmare. Perched upon the bed in the semi-darkness, he meekly confesses his pitiful love for her before and rising in a paroxysm of despair and anger.
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