What is the point? There isn’t much of a plot, there’s some weird unrelated bit at the beginning, and a tornado at the end. Is there some symbolism here I’m not getting? I don’t understand how the brothers that brought us Raising Arizona and O’ Brother could bring us this meaningless film. Did I miss the middle of the film somehow?
I felt the same, it’s not just you. I watched it a few weeks ago, and I don’t think I can remember anything about it.
There was a thread along these lines a while back. Not sure if I started it or just posted in it. I’m with you, but many others felt it was hilarious, and a masterpiece.
It’s a riff on the book of Job. At the end of the book of Job, God comes to see Job “in a whirlwind.” The whole movie is the Coen brothers’ riffing on Job.