The Blind Leading the Blind

There seem to be as many interpretations of the Coen Brothers' dark, unsettling film, Inside Llewyn Davis, as there are people who've seen it. I think the key is in this song -- the first song you hear in the film.

I think Llewyn spends the entire film -- and a significant amount of time before the events in the film take place (i.e. his relationship with Jean) -- looking for the perfection of this one recording, and the one relationship that made it possible.

He never finds it, and that's too bad. Although he exhibits some stunningly-narcissistic behavior, he's not always wrong about other people's blindness. The tragedy of the film is that the blind are leading the blind right back onto the hamster wheel of hell -- and they don't even know what they're looking for.

This is Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford with "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)".