Fargo Themes

Coke or Pepsi? Sox or Yankees? Take your spouse to dinner or hire someone to kidnap them? We all face these difficult choices in life. In Fargo, we get to see how Jerry handles that last one. His d...

The movie centers around a crime: Jerry ordering the kidnapping of his wife in order to swindle his father-in-law out of the ransom money. But it doesn't depict crime in a conventional way. The cri...

In Fargo we see Marge and Norm in the process of building a family… and we see Jerry effectively dismantling his own family, concocting a scheme that will inadvertently lead to the deaths of his...

In early Christian teachings, greed was one of the Seven Deadly Sins. In Dante's Inferno, the fourth circle of hell is reserved for greedy people. In Fargo, greed lives up to its nasty rep as somet...

Fargo is full of things that are a little off—strange bizarro gags; juxtapositions of incredibly different images and events; unlikely scenarios. The whole movie involves a kidnapping plan that s...

One of the main things that makes Fargo unique is its setting. If it had been set in L.A. or New York, it might've been a somewhat more typical crime drama. But the fact that it's set in an out-of-...