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Question about two scenes


The two scenes are back to back: Carl tries to get a picture on the TV and Marge watches TV before telling her sleeping husband that she's going to bed. Both scenes are brief. Why were these scenes shown?

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It was a clever way to cut between the two scenes. Also the TV picture comes on, and image is close-up footage of a beetle who captures his prey, a worm, and then hauls it away. I think it's an apt metaphor for the kidnappers who are some kind of lower life form, without heart or conscience. Then you realize the image is on Margie's TV. As she watches the insect, perhaps she starts to realize (if only subconsciously) what kind of people she's dealing with.

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A +. Timely and spot on.

Hopefully we can all learn to be better people by watching Fargo.

I'm sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda.

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That's my absolute favorite scene in the film.
Mainly, how the music plays as Carl bangs the TV, while Gaear just sits there, staring at the TV (or at nothing).
It's very poetic, and meditative.
Does that particular scene mean anything? What was going on in Gaear's mind?
Was he reevaluating his life?
Lol

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No.

Gaear is watching static on his TV. He is mesmerized by static because .....he's a SOMNAMBULANT IDIOT.

He is an insect. Or maybe...

He IS the wood chipper.

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Virtually every scene in that movie has snow in it somewhere, so it's no surprise that all the televisions, with one exception, have either images that contain ice or snow (hockey), or the images themselves are "snowy," another word to describe static. The one exception? Jean - right before she is kidnapped her television displays a bright, smiling sun.

I love this movie - there is so much attention to detail it's almost scary. How could the academy pass it over for "The English Patient?" What were they smoking?

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