Movie Review in an Experimental Form: Burn After Reading

What was the movie trying to accomplish?

1. Find comedy in tragic events happening to inflated, larger than life characters.
2. Explore the nature of fate and epic coincidence, leaving a taste of meaninglessness and doubt.
3. Give the rare opportunity for incredibly talented, but not "conventionally attractive," actresses to act in roles that are fun and entertaining but not necessarily high art.
4. Show greed for what it is: the cause of all human pain.

Was the movie successful in accomplishing these goals?
Taken point by point:

1. No. There are very few actual laughs in this movie. The off-beat script combined with the star-studded cast turns the whole affair into a contest entitled "Who Can Play The Quirkiest Character."Of course, if this contest actually existed, Frances McDormand would have won it, but more about her anon. The few laughs in the movie come, not from the machinery of the movie, but from the deliveries of the individual actors. The shining example in this movie of mediocre punchlines delivered for the best possible laugh is Brad Pitt. (A quick note on Pitt: I consider him a great performer and not really an actor at all. He has a way of making each role he plays a pleasure to watch, without ever engaging in the art of acting. In this way he provides a service, and does it very very well. Like Google. That is why Pitt has about a billion more dollars than other equally attractive and charming actors). So the movie as a whole isn't funny. If there is a dark pleasure drawn from the preposterous tragedy of the plot, I wouldn't really call it comedy. Oh, and J.K. Simmons brings the heat.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. It must be really annoying to be well-respected actress in Hollywood that isn't a bombshell. Agents would be constantly pitching you scripts, saying, "It's a modern re-telling of the Ophelia story; but instead of a Hamlet, it's AIDS." And you'd reply, "Would someone please give me a cakewalk script that I can apply 2/5 of my talent to, be incredibly awesome in, and just get fucking paid? I don't need Oscar fodder every time. What about that bullshit superhero movie that Charlize Theron was just in? I want something like that." There would be an awkward pause and then one of the agents would say, "I'll call the Coen Brothers."
4. Yes, but in a predictable way. The Coen Brothers seem completely obsessed with greed. I'm not the first to notice a consistency in the brothers' stylistic devices, but most Coen Brothers' movies are motivated by greed: Miller's Crossing, Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men. They seem to think, and perhaps not wrongly, that if everyone stopped wanting more money than they worked for, the world's ills would vaporize. It can be best summarized by Frances MacDormand's famous line from Fargo, speaking to a murderer she has just caught: "There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it." The Coen Brothers, it should be noted, are probably rich as hell. I couldn't find any specific info, but they have more in life than just a little bit of money.