Barton Fink: False boring movie / True Masterpiece

I had this buddy who was an aspiring director, with whome i had a lot of interesting cinematic discussions (we had the same first name, but that's really an insignificant detail), and he was telling me about Barton Fink, the movie by Joel and Ethan Coen, and how it was a "masterpiece" and it really made me more perplexed, first of all the title was weird, and movie was set in the fourties, and it received Cannes Recgonition, i thought it was one of these "arty" movies with only ten people liking them, and it had won a Golden Palm in Cannes Festival, which is really a bad thing considering that most of these film tend to be arrogant and boring, but i ended up by getting the dvd anyways



This movie is really a "masterpiece", it's about a theaterwriter "Barton Fink" (John Turturro) who is hired to write a wrestling movie in LA, so he moves there and he checks in the "Hotel Earl" and starts to write, only to discover that he has writer's block, so he starts to seek help from: a legendary writer he meets in a public bathroom, a studio executive, or from his fat happy wierd neighbour (amazing performance by John Goodman), only to see his life getting more and more complicated and gloomy, but that's only the first layer of a very thick movie, with sublayers of reflections about movies, writing, images, illusions, snobism, while still remaining a cool enjoyable movie (believe me i was more sceptical then you at first)



This movie remains the only movie to have won the (best actor, best director, and an UNANIMOUS golden palm in Cannes Film Festival) frankly you can't affoard miss this one, would it be for the performances by Micheal Lerner, or Jon Polito, or Tony Shalhoub, and then you will have a lot of fun tracking it's "hidden meanings" on the internet, and what if "Hotel Earl" was not really a hotel, and what if Barton never made it to LA, and what about the pictures hanging on his wall but that's just one of the MANY questions which might keep you thinking a loong time.

Jebbiness : 4/5