Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson

Some characters have a short life span, who for example remembers Tommy Lee Jones' character from "Volcano", or Bruce Willis' character in that movie i forgot the name of, but i betcha that nobody will be able to forget Marge Gunderson from "Fargo".

After a series of violent and senseless murders occurs on the road around Fargo Minnesota, and the person who is investigating is police chief Marge Gunderson, and she is not what you'd expect her to be, not this wanted-to-be-a-man cop, who plays it tough, she is just a smart seven months pregnant cop, who is married to a stamp painter, she is a good chief and a good wife.

Marge starts investigating, quickly figuring out that these murders were linked to a story involving the kidnapping of a housewife, two very violent small timers who are after a lousy ransom, and sneaky son in law who is the dumb mastermind of this whole situation.

Of course i'm not giving away the plot of "Fargo" one of the best movies of the nineties, that being sad, you can't help but love marge gunderson, her modesty, her smarts and her true belief in good, Marge is supportive to her husband even if he does a lousy job, she supports an old highschool friend who is desperate in his private life to find out that he is a compulsive liar, and she is slowly able to follow the leads that will take her to find a solution to these gratuitous murders, and to the roots of the basic greed behind them.

Marge Gunderson is a hero, not one like these ones you see on TV, but she is a hero anyone can be, she is a good person, she is good at her job, supportive to her husband, and above that, smarter then everybody around her, but she doesn't feel the need to show it off, and that's what made her one of the most loved character in cinema history (she is number 33 at the AFI 100 heroes list), and let's not forget the movies signature Minnesotan accent, which is so pleasent to listen to, and so hard to forget, along with the iconic main theme which has the ryhthm of a Scandenavian chant.

This masterpiece of a character is due to two reasons, one is Frances McDormand's performance, and the second being that the script is written so good, Frances Mc Dormand (the oscar winner that year) played marge gunderson as if it was an alter ego, with honesty and wit, it is really impossible not to root for her, as she is the only character with a clear moral compass in the middle of all the others, blinded by greed and incompetence, or by selfishness, matter of fact this is a movie you should watch only to see that seven months pregnant woman saying at the end of the movie after all that blood spilled and all these people dead “And for what? For a little bit of money.... There's more to life than money,you know.... Don't you know that?... And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day...”