As a folk fan, Inside Llewyn Davis is a heavy disappointment. I can’t buy into it as a portrayal of the early-60s folk scene because the Coen bros’ dialogue is too crass, modern, and maybe simply anachronistic. The intense bitterness of every character being either an idiot hick or a smartass shithead is overbearing, and there’s almost no reasonable interactions between characters. Llewyn’s never given a positive quality or interesting personality, and by extension barely does this movie.