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Familiar movie devices are made to feel new. To describe what happens in the film's brilliant and long-sustained caper sequence would be unfair. But also know that the movie never goes as far or shows as much as it seems about to like "Blood Simple," it takes us to the edge of the unacceptable, peers over wistfully and tiptoes away. When this scene played at the Toronto Film Festival, people fled the theater, so be warned. Shelley arrives with the briefcase, and it appears that he's going to get his fingers cut off, one at a time. The plot depends on split-second timing if anything goes wrong, they could be dead. Now the movie turns into a macabre caper comedy of clockwork virtuosity. She thinks they should steal the cash, and she needs Violet's help-since as an ex-con, Violet is presumably an expert criminal. "Did I use a good towel?") Violet tells Corky that a bag man named Shelley (Barry Kivel) is arriving at Caesar's, with $2 million in cash.
So far she hasn't been able to get Caesar to listen. Violet whispers that she wants to escape Caesar so the two women can start a new life together.
Violet and Corky have secret tete-a-tetes, and vice versa, and become lovers. The movie seems to be shaping up as an erotic popcorn-masher, but then the plot thickens and keeps on thickening, twisting the characters and the audience ever tighter into a sticky web of murder, blood, sex and money. Gershon and Tilly are electric together, maybe because they understand the humor of their situation and play the sex for delight instead of for solemn earth-shaking gynecological drudgery. Passion between the two women is instantaneous, steamy and kind of funny. There's always a scene early in the movie showing them caulking something. In old movies this was a ploy to trap men, but for about 10 years I've noticed that the only movie characters who seem to do household tasks anymore are lesbians. Violet creates an excuse to meet Corky she uses the routine about her ring falling down the sink. His girlfriend is Violet ( Jennifer Tilly), whose lust for their new neighbor is so obvious she might as well just turn herself in to Jerry Springer and get it over with ("Violet - afraid to tell Mafioso boyfriend she's a lesbian"). The mobster is Caesar ( Joe Pantoliano), a mid-level functionary in the Chicago crime syndicate. The sexy newcomer is Corky ( Gina Gershon), a lesbian who has just finished serving a prison sentence. It's more of an act that gives her immunity in a dangerous environment. He's a mobster, all right, but she's not as ditzy as she looks. She rides the elevator to her floor with what looks like a mobster and his ditzy girlfriend.
As the film opens, a tough but sexy woman is moving into a new apartment.
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