Joel Coen

You Can't Stop What's Coming (Anton Chigurh and the New Violence)

Fargo Is About the One Person the Machine Cannot Corrupt: A Pregnant Cop Who Simply Does the Right Thing

Blood Simple Is a Machine Where Everyone Kills the Wrong Person for the Wrong Reason

Miller's Crossing Is a Man Protecting His Own Soul by Pretending He Has None

Barton Fink Is About a Man Who Worships the Common People and Refuses to Meet One

The Big Lebowski Is a Comedy About the One Man in Los Angeles Who Refuses to Grasp

A Serious Man Is the Book of Job Told by a God Who Never Speaks From the Whirlwind

Inside Llewyn Davis Is a Man Trapped in the Same Week Because He Refuses the Lesson It Keeps Teaching

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Is Six Rehearsals for the One Meeting No One in the West Escapes

The Tragedy of Macbeth Films the Witches as One Body Because the Voice That Tempts You Is Never Actually Outside You