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I haven't seen it in a long time. I just think it was dumb to kill off the guy halfway through the movie then get told by Cohen Bros buffs it's all about the movie subverting your expectations.
(though as I understand it it was based on a book.)

not that I mind the main characters dying, I just want it to be a bit more thematic to what the story is trying to convey,
[like Janet Leigh getting stabbed in Psycho, because the hotel owner was a crossdressing murderer. Or William Petersen gets shotgunned in the face in the penultimate scene in To Live and Die in LA, because he was always taking too many risks trying to bust the counterfeiters.]

saying "well the main character doesn't always win!" is not really a story. stuff like overcoming an obstacle of some sort is.