The Coen Brothers 'Blood Simple'

Blood Simple is the first movie directed by the Coen brothers. The use of violence and crime in this neo noir film utterly correlates with the classic noir. Majority of the Coen brother’ films feature a crime that seldom go right. Blood Simple features a jealous Saloon owner, Marty who hires a divorce detective, Visser to spy and kill his wife and her bartender lover named Ray. Visser doesn’t go ahead with the deal, instead he kills the Marty and that sets off a series of wrong assumptions and complex events, which leads to the death of almost all the people involved.
Most noir films have protagonists that are questionable, with shady past. The Coen brothers made most of their characters in Blood Simple untrustworthy. Ray is having an affair