Does "Fargo" fit the typical thriller genre?

Objectives: To finish viewing "Fargo" and move towards an analysis of the way in which the Coen Brothers subvert the thriller genre."Fargo" challenges the idea of a thriller.
Sound - most thrillers use music and sound to build suspense whereas "Fargo" doesn't it uses music in some scenes but for the most part it doesn't.
Pacing - in most thrillers the pacing of the film is quite fast whereas in "Fargo" the pacing is quite slow with long scenes that usually wouldn't be in films, especially thrillers, for example the final scene with Frances McDormand and her on screen husband John Carroll Lynch in bed discussing stamps.
Dialogue - the conversations are slow and don't get right to the point again not like the average thriller films.
Characters - the characters in this film again challenge the stereotypical characters for a thriller film. The main character in this film is a middle aged pregnant woman, in most thriller films if there is a female main character she is a skinny woman who fights, probably a famous actress. Although it is usually a male lead who fights crime.
Scenes - There are scenes in the film that wouldn't necessarily be in other thrillers, most of them being between McDormand and Lynch.
Suspense - Thrillers usually build suspense from the very beginning whereas in "Fargo" it only starts to build suspense towards the end of the film.

In class today we read an article by William Luhr, 5 things that stand out from his article are;

1. William Luhr thinks that as white is the dominant colour in "Fargo" then it should be called "white noir" although this would be contradictory as noir means black in french.
2. "Marge and Norm embody an alternative value structure to the failed cultural agenda and compulsive greed that dooms the other characters." This is a quote from Luhr's article, in the film Marge asks Gaear Grimsrud why he killed all those people just for the money. This is lost on Marge she can't understand this concept.
3. Joel Coen once said in reference to "Fargo" "First it happened with an era and a region we were familiar with, which we could explore. Then it concerned a kidnapping, a type of event which has always fancinated us... And finally there was the possibility to shoot a criminal movie with characters far removed from the stereotypes of the genre."
4. The Coen brothers are seen to be in the film noir genre and Luhr thinks their earlier work like "Blood Simple" is "squarely" in the film noir genre.
5. The Coen Brothers had such a clear view of who they wanted in "The Big Lebowski" that they postponed filming and made "Fargo" instead as they wanted Jeff Bridges to be in the film. I think this shows dedicated to the film.