What an honor to be the first to review a masterpiece such as this collection of celluloid.



"Barton Fink" explores the relationship between, artist, subject, audience, and those people of power whom facilitate art while not always sympathising with it.



Barton (played by Tutorro) is a playright who is responsable for a broadway hit based on the lives of fishmongers. Unlike other mediums in the performing arts, this is one wherin the author enjoys the lion's share of the adulation when adulation is due. Barton, however, is a man of princable and feels a great deal of trepidation when a new offer comes his way. The offer is from Hollywood, and with a great sense of guilt, he accepts.



Barton's princables, as well as his guilt, are the subject of this entire film. Ofcourse Joel and Ethan Coen do a magnificent job with the camera, characters, and sets, but if you can't sympathise with Barton Fink's torment, you might be better off seeing "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". For those who enjoy trying to understand a character, his motivations, desires, ambitions, and insecurities, look no further.



John Tutorro (I can't be spelling that right) deserves the highest praise for bringing out every nuance in such a complex character. He really rose to the challenge, and if it were not so, the film surely would have drown in its lack. Look also for a ramarkable turn in John Goodman's resumee, he proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he can handle any chore a screenwriter might bequeeth him. He's not just a funny-man, and I for one would just like to say, "well done John, well done indeed.



I'm sure some will call the film pretensious, when in fact, it exposes the original sin, which is pretencion.



One of the best films of the 20th century!