A Serious Man is not a nice movie. Like both No Country for Old Men or Burn After Reading, it’s a film where the pieces don’t quite add up. You could compare it to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, except the Coen Brothers are less interested in sifting through history than grappling with the eternal mysteries. Man depicts a kind of war against God, a war which is always going to be one-sided. As the protagonist Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) puts it at one point, why does God give man so many questions if He’s not going to provide any answers?
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A Serious Man: But Seriously …
December 15, 2009Tags:A Serious Man, Aaron Wolff, Alan Mandell, American Beauty, Barton Fink, Blue Velvet, Burn After Reading, Carter Burwell, Coen Brothers, Dante Aligheri, David Lynch, Deborah Jensen, F Troop, Franz Kafka, Fred Melamed, George Wyner, Jess Gonchor, Michael Haneke, Michael Lerner, Michael Stuhlbarg, No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins, Simon Helberg, The White Ribbon
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