Now, read the statement that opens Fargo again.
#The anchoring effect movie#
To my surprise, I found that everything – the movie and the series – was fiction.
At that moment I experienced a wave of doubt…surely I would have heard about this in the news. What strange seed of violence grew in their homespun, colloquial manners?Īt one point in the show, a massacre occurred in the city of Fargo. I began to wonder what was wrong with the people of Minnesota. It started each episode with the same statement about how the events actually happened in Minnesota.Įnthralled, I watched the misadventures of another naive Minnesota man who became entangled with criminals, deceit, and murder. I continued to be mesmerized for years by Jerry’s story, rewatching the movie, wondering how someone could be so naively dishonest.Ī few years ago, a TV series, also called Fargo and associated with the Cohen’s, aired. And indeed, the movie has a realistic tone and superb acting that make it feel like reality is unfolding before you on the screen. Yet you know it all actually happened because of the opening statement. The violent misadventures that follow stretch the imagination. The movie tells the tale of Jerry Lundegaard, an ordinary man in such desperate financial straits he hires the kidnapping of his own wife to collect ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.
Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987.Īt the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. At the beginning of the film Fargo, written and directed by the Cohen brothers, this statement appears:
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