watch the Coen Brothers' 2001 neo-noir film The Man Who Wasn't There and Tay Garnett's 1946 film noir classic The Postman...

watch the Coen Brothers' 2001 neo-noir film The Man Who Wasn't There and Tay Garnett's 1946 film noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice and write a 2-3 page Critical Essay in which you discuss the ways in which the Coens' film The Man Who Wasn't There both follows and diverges from Tay Garnett's narrative and stylistic patterns in The Postman Always Rings Twice, in terms of the way each director used  stylistic and thematic devices to convey the postmodern existential reality that we can never truly know the "truth about what happens," because "an inescapable paradox rules human affairs," and that is, in the end, "the only certainty is uncertainty."