Film Quote of the Day: The 'Miller's Crossing' Line That Might Be One of the Coens' Most Underrated

The useful part

I can't think of a better way to spend any amount of time than watching a Coen Brothers film. Those two guys just have this special ear for storytelling that challenges the audience and characters to reconcile a complicated world. They always have characters whose actions get them into trouble, and I love the webs that are woven that seem impossible to untangle.

How it works

• These are filmmakers whose stylized dialogue has given us some of the most memorable conversations in The Big Lebowski, dream recounting in No Country for Old Men, or the rhythmic Midwest patter of Fargo.
• YouTube www.youtube.com The Scene in Question This is a movie about gangsters and three different kinds of love: romantic, familial, and paternal.
• In fact, I don't think I truly understood the characters and their backstories on screen until I had seen this movie about three times.
• There's so much going on that's unspoken, and even when spoken, so many lines can mean a few different things.

What to take from it

So pay close attention to all the ways this quote fits into the story.

Details worth keeping

It's one of their more austere, even difficult, movies to unpack.