Cultural Symbolism In The Film Fargo

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that is a connection between. Fargo has a relationship between meals, food and humanity. Food is the symbolism of their connection to society and proximity to the good and bad. Marge, the police “heroine” of the film is surrounded by food and meals all the time, she’s is shown several times having dinner, lunch and even breakfast with her husband every time she is having a meal we can see that she is firmly attached to humanity and society. Another example of this food-humanity-society kind of connection on the film is Jerry (William H. Macy), the “master mind” of the kidnapping before he kidnapped his own wife his family used to appear almost in every scene surrounded by food, either eating or talking while the wife was cooking. After

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