Greedy People

Greedy People

Greedy People

58
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(6.2)

1h 53m 2024 HD

Greedy People: In “Old Henry,” director Potsy Ponciroli made quite a mess of the front porch of a frontier house as he had splashed an unusually high volume of blood on the walls and the porch. And for this? For some money, as the other Fargo character Marge Gunderson put it years later.

Hitting the deck again with Coen brothers regular Tim Blake Nelson for the second time in the movie “Greedy people” Ponciroli, swaps the unregulated West for modern-day Northeast, though giving it a dark humor of possibility of a diabolical cash grab in Providence, a South Carolina town.

On this occasion, Ponciroli is working to the order and vision of another, and despite the fact that this new film is arguably more Coen’s than Coen, it went soft. Old Henry was grisly in its remorseless bluntness; there was no such intelligentsia in that movie.

This is the origin of the film of the Kansas City police department and this is the contrast between that film and what this one is attempting. Therefore, the deployment of a particularly effective feminist subplot is elementary, as evil caricaturists hate the readers. This time the Limits of the Challenge Woodchipper have begun to miss.

So here’s the deal: It’s law enforcement rookie Will’s (Himesh Patel) first day on the job, and he’s been assigned to a partner Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a chief of police who seems to be overweight and a bit out of control, even has a really awful mustache.

Terry is such a jerk, almost bullying Will while playing loud metal rock and forcing the poor intern to remain outside even when he is about to rush in to dry hump some migrant’s ex housewife. You half-dimensional expect him to make racist jokes but instead, Terry admits he is steering towards learning Chinese in his free time.

Not much takes place in Providence, this far-from-model officer insists, suggesting the rookie should take up sculpture. But that’s hardly true of Will’s first few hours on the job: While Terry is held up on another call, a call comes in regarding a different matter.

Believing it was still unspecified in the radio code, he enters without permission into the palace of Wallace (Nelson), a local whaling ship owner, and his wife Virginia (Traci Lords) with less than fortunate (unexpectedly fatal) outcomes.

It’s not all that bad however as the frightened policemen find a bag filled with money in the host’s living room and as such resolve to clean the crime scene and conceal the woman’s death as manslaughter rather than an unfortunate incident.

Before this point of the movie, the viewer can hardly relate to any piece of behavior which the screenwriter Mike Vukadinovich has so far described in the film. Even though this is a Jerry Springer-esque plot, it lacks that fascination in true crime – the total deviancy hence Ponciroli has enough imaginative grip to amuse us.

Such progression would be how relatable Will’s home-life introduction could be. There, we also met his beautiful, pregnant wife Paige (Lily James) who is an expert at picking up after her husband’s activities mess.

Well, it is a good thing that their family obviously needs that kind of cash, though nothing is easy in such films as this. Who the cash would belong to: Will any lucky fella retain it or it disappear to the four winds like in ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ Given the consequences, there is usually a moral reasoning behind that answer, judgmental more often on behalf of the money-makers, and based on “Old Henry”, I would say that in Ponciroli’s hands, no one survives. Not Nelson, who is in the cast but here in an even shorter role.

As the story of “Greedy People” progresses, the intricately structured screenplay keeps cartoony heroes appearing with greater and greater nastiness, like the upstairs masseur (Simon Rex) who was present at the murder of Virgina or two advance scouts-‘Lizzie’ and ‘Lion’- when everything gets out ofcontrol – Jim Gaffigan as “The Irishman” and José María Yazpik as “The Colombian.” Why anyone needs two hired guns in a small town like Providence us an answer nobody cares about but their presence nearly assures that the body count is going to rise.

What comes next is not so much in estimate, but rather in the order of things, and perhaps it is information that was best kept away from the gross Ponciroli – here it was possible to concentrate on what makes this project interesting – not greedy people, but the place where it all happens. The last film where South Carolina is one of the backgrounds that I can remember may be “The Notebook,” at most (“The Notebook,” at most in one).

The paper was great, and even forty-five films were made that could have been taken from a dozen cycled films from the s ‘90s: revised overlong crime dramas in Tarantino’s ‘Of dogs and people’ style, eccentric cutings such as lords and rex in the same film, do not make sense if they are not coordinated.

Terry’s character is a rough example, unlike most of the previous characters played by Gordon-Levitt, such as a boy scout impersonating a bad cop. This movie in all probability would work better if we were given the darker version of him (his partner certainly does), though the central theme of Greedy people seems to be that every good person turns bad once you chuck enough money at them. It’s unfortunate that such people do not view life the way Marge Gunderson did: “There’s more to life than a little money, you know.”

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  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Country: United States
  • Director: Potsy Ponciroli
  • Cast: Himesh Patel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James
Greedy People

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