Though
Blood Simple may be the very first feature-film directorial effort from The Coen Brothers (like all their earliest works, only Joel Coen is credited due to DGA regulations), this movies does not come off as some sort of watered-down version of the duo's later filmmaking. There's already a noticeably assured hand behind the camera that brings to life a Texas-set noir with real flourish. To boot, it's interesting to note how
Blood Simple feels like a combination of two of the Coen Brothers best works that would arrive more than two decades after
Blood Simple arrived into theaters. Specifically,
Blood Simple combines the grim Southern crime aesthetic of
No Country For Old Men with the inexperienced criminals getting out of their element aspect of
Burn After Reading.
