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He had a partner with whom he recorded a pretty successful album, but since his partner's passing, Llewyn's career as a singer is circling the drain and he's thinking about a return to the Merchant Marines.

Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a folk singer in the late 50s/early 60s, still emotionally reeling and numb from the suicide death of his musical partner.

Set in the early 1960s, Inside Llewyn Davis follows the titular character (Oscar Isaac), an aspiring folk singer struggling to get through as a solo act after the death of his partner.

I recently rewatched the Coen brothers 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis, and realized that I like this film quite a bit.

If I have a complaint about Inside Llewyn Davis it would be that I would have made a longer film and fleshed out the peripheral characters more.

Then we have the characters portrayed by John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund, two talented musicians who are rather unpleasant and insulting towards Llewyn (at least Goodmans character), themselves in a way representing wasted talents, unlikely to make it because of different problems, although Llewyn...

On the surface, the film appears morose and desperate (all Llewyn's songs seem to be about death or dying) but like ticking money bombs that have the time to travel all around the world for weeks and months on end before detonating; the film is actually filled with hitting it "big" moments.