Blood Simple

I have a preconceived idea on how I thought Blood Simple was going to unfold. There would be a good guy and a bad guy, and the bad guy would always be a step ahead of the good guy, but for some unknown reason the bad guy would not actually make an attempt to kill the good guy until the near end. I was thinking it would be a stereotypical thriller. I found myself surprised that this movie was not at all a copy of most popular thriller movies. The plot began to unfold and each character was put in situations I didn’t at all expect to happen. There was no precise good guy, or bad guy. Each character acted individually to create a twisted and tangled web of suspense. I really enjoyed how the focus shifted to each character. The movie started with Abby being the one in danger; she felt like her life was threatened by her husband. As the movie progress the focus changed to each character, which I really thought made the movie different than any that I have seen. In the end, after murders, cover-ups, and more, it all comes back to Abby. She fights for her life in the end, not actually knowing anything that had happened throughout the movie – despite the fact that she was involved in all of it. I thought this was a really cool twist. She thought she was fighting her husband the whole time, but it was the private investigator that her husband had fired. This movie was definitely a unique thriller that was unlike any others that I have seen.