It may be thick enough to kill a few stray kittens, but it's got a genuine pathos to it too. And, on top of this, on repeat viewings I can say that it becomes even more engrossing, and just a bit more entertaining if really ready to dig into the atmosphere. I feel like picking up a Cain book after watching this. In short, the Coen Brothers have once again struck a little gem in the rough, shot in black and white and stylized to a T. If Sartre decided to throw out the politics and religion and stick to the being and nothingness and write a hard-boiled novel, this might be it. Billy Bob Thornton turns in another top shelve job (geniusly subtle, even for him) as a quiet and observant barber named Ed, who gets drawn into an unfortunate string of events with his wife (Frances McDormand) who has cheated on him with Big Dave (James Gandolfini who in his scattered minutes on the screen shows his ability for Oscar nomination-type work) and with the usual line of events that would come from a noir comes compelling characters and set-pieces that show's Ed in a downfall though it is from a life the never wanted to lead in the first place. Joel and Ethan Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There doesn't (how could it) top their first film-noir classic Blood Simple, but it is still an incredibly stylish and acted with pizazz type of film which should definitely get better with multiple viewings. Reviewed by Quinoa1984 10 / 10 one of the Coen brothers best, a film that becomes a masterpiece after a while. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices.

Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life.

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