If you go along for the ride this movie is hilarious. If you want to try to figure out story plots and find a deeper meaning of life from a film, try something else. The Coen brothers have once again taken the ordinary and given it a quirky twist in their latest film, Burn After Reading.The premise: Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt) are two fitness trainers who find what they believe to be top secret CIA files in the gym and try to use the information as blackmail to get money for Linda's plastic surgery. Once they have set plans in motion with the rightful owner of the disk, Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich), several others find themselves being pulled in, including Cox's wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton) and her lover Harry (George Clooney). Trying to keep things from escalating are the gym manager (Richard Jenkins) and CIA Superior (J.K. Simmons).
This could have been played out as a simple act of mistaken identity and fraud. However, the plot forms circles upon circles to show that nothing is as it first appears and while things are discovered, nothing is understood. There might not be a lot of sense to what you see, but it is enjoyable to just sit back and watch.
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