A very interesting movie and easily the most abstract the Coen Brothers have ever gotten. The story starts out extremely normal and essentially average, but grows into this Eraserhead-like journey. It manages to really capture a wonderful sense of awkwardness, which it had to with such a nervous and neurotic character. Every Time Barton interacts with someone it is not quite normal, something blocks him from becoming a fully functional human being. The symbolism, while overly apparent, is extremely effective and interesting to look at. It’s not just a simple story of a man writing a script, there’s so much more to it than that.