The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

  • Director: Joel Coen
  • Writer: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Kingdom
  • Language: English, Italian, French
  • Release date: November 16, 2001
  • Runtime: 1h 56min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Barber Project
  • "The Man Who Wasn't There" is a crime drama film released by Good Machine International , co-directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen , and co-starred by Billy Bob Thornton , Frances McDormand and James Gandolfini . The film was released in the United States on November 2, 2001   .
    The film tells the story of Eddie, the barber whose life is unremarkable. He suspects that his wife is having an affair with his boss Dave. As a result, Dave finds Eddie to vent his anger and is killed.

    Details

    • Release date November 16, 2001
    • Filming locations Santa Rosa, California, USA
    • Production companies Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures (I), Mike Zoss Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $20,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $7,504,257

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $664,404

    Gross worldwide

    $18,916,623

    Movie reviews

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    • By Gerardo 2022-12-30 11:02:32

      The silence of Jaromir

      It is not so much a fate book of a tragic little man with a little bit of inaccuracies. Rather, this is more like the American movie version of the poet Jaromir who has been living elsewhere. The hairdresser who dangles cigarettes all day long and frankly states his boring life, like Jaromir, is always free from this person who is prying himself out of the lens. Even life forced him to be woven into a complex network of relationships. He just numbly accepts the various destinies that...

    • By Verda 2022-12-30 09:55:05

      Destiny is a long and continuous butterfly effect

      1. The movie made me feel the meaninglessness of life (self in the eyes of others) to a certain extent. When the lawyer made up stories to defend Cohen’s wife, Big David’s experience was inexplicably distorted, which probably became the driving force behind her choice to hang herself. . When ED became a prisoner, the lawyer made up another set of stories from the perspective of human nature, saying that he cannot kill people. He is an ordinary person like you and me. He put himself in front...

    • By Hayley 2022-12-29 23:06:03

      absent person

      Beginning and Ending:

      "I work in a barber shop, but I never wanted to be a hairdresser. I was framed by marriage, to be exact. I didn't run the shop, as my accomplices say, it's just a job."

      "It's like getting out of a labyrinth. In a labyrinth, you can't help yourself, turning around the corner you think you're going to make, breaking into a dead end, one thing after another, but you always keep your distance, all the corners follow The corners are like the appearance of your...

    • By Herminio 2022-12-29 17:20:46

      I thought it was a play

      At first, I was waiting for the wonderful ending, until Bob Thornton was in the electric chair, and there was something unreasonable about it. It seems that I'm still not used to the story of depression to death.

      A person doesn't like his job but has no other choice; he
      spends most of the day listening to a person who has no nutrition criticize his life;
      his wife sleeps with someone else;
      he wants to kill two birds with one stone, but the money he cheated is lost in...

    • By Chesley 2022-12-26 00:21:16

      About the truth

      "The Absent"

      science? understand? reality? In doubt?

      Sometimes the more you observe, the less you know the truth.

      We always seek the truth, but at most we can only be infinitely close to the truth.

      In the film, because of the narrator's perspective, he constantly emphasizes that he is just a barber, so various hairstyles appear in the film, which are common to him. inch, the back...

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    • By Jordane 2023-09-24 05:11:41

      8.5 The rhythm of light and shadow in black and white, the sloppy narrative, is realistic but so absurd, the restraint in the front contrasts the insolence in the back, fate is like a closed loop, can break free, but cannot escape, those who are absent will only be absent for a short time (Beethoven). The music for this movie is simply...

    • By Amber 2023-09-18 13:40:32

      Numb and mechanized work day after day, the loneliness of life and the indifference after being consumed by loneliness, the sense of non-existence, absence, powerlessness, and the absence of life that cannot be...

    • By Paris 2023-09-01 19:50:12

      The male protagonist is really not disturbed, calm and calm, and he is the first person, even an Aquarius...

    • By Vinnie 2023-08-30 00:31:28

      The Coen Brothers' film noir taste of the 1940s [The Absentee] is a work whose atmosphere outweighs its content, and it is also an existential interpretation of this genre. Its slow rhythm is to echo the "absent" state of the protagonist, this Mr. Cellophane is a typical "modern person". Such pessimism (no matter how well done through great photography) is always depressing. Where is the rescue? Obviously not on those flying...

    • By Kathryne 2023-08-29 15:45:54

      When Betty plays Beethoven's piano, I think of the people coming and going on the street. We passed each other, but it was as if we didn't see each other. We were the only ones walking alone in this world, like an arranged life, with no clue and purpose, but always going in one...

    Movie plot

    It happened in 1949. Ed, the hairdresser in a small town on the northern outskirts of San Francisco. He was unable to participate in World War II due to illness. Life after the war was even more peaceful. He was introverted by nature and didn't like to talk. The pushy wife seems to have no feelings, and even has no reaction to his wife Hongxing going out of the wall. Once Ed, who is dissatisfied with the status quo, "acts", the status...
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    "The Man Who Wasn't There" is a bizarre reasoning film on the surface, but it is actually a lightly absurd comedy. It inherits the style of Hollywood black thrillers in the 1940s, and even made it into a black and white film, which is cynical. The spirit of emptiness is hidden deep in the transitional colors of black and white and rich details. (Film critic "Zhou Liming") 
    "The Man Who Wasn't There" depicts a small person who seems to...
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    Movie quotes

    • [last lines]

      Ed Crane: I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what I'll find, beyond the earth and sky. But I'm not afraid to go. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here.

    • [first lines]

      Ed Crane: Yeah, I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbled into it. Or married into it, more precisely.

    • Ed Crane: Frank Raffo, my brother-in-law, was the principle barber, and man could he talk. Now maybe if you're 11 or 12 years old, Frank's got an interesting point of view. But sometimes he got on my nerves.