Too Late

Sidney Lumet's masterful Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a bleak affair of family staking family for easy gains and fast cash. It is not unlike Fargo in how a full proof heist goes awry almost immediately. This is the sort of plan that should never be planned. And like the Coen's, Lumet is as interested in the humanity behind the scheme. The above clip is just that. The schemer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, seeks refuge from a backwards reality; down is up, left is right, and hell is 60-stories high. There is no heaven.