just different

Maegan 2022-04-20 09:01:40

The opening paragraph made me think I was in the wrong theater. This is the Gao An brothers, they try hard to make the audience unappreciated.
The story is about a professor with a small family who suddenly encounters bad luck and encounters all kinds of misfortunes and troubles, big and small...
The movie starts out piecemeal, as if consciously letting the audience do the puzzles themselves. Hey, I don't think about it that much, I don't care what you want to say.
The background is a Jewish community. Of course, the Jewish life presented by the director is very different from the traditional image.
Play, the director wants to play, just like the male protagonist doing a physical examination, the doctor smoking a cigarette and talking to him.
I think the premise of the story is a bit similar to the previous No Country for Old Men. It is also how the little characters face temptation, face the devil, and make choices.
Of course, there are no cold-blooded killers who shudder this time, but there are career troubles, marriage troubles, children troubles, sibling troubles, and money troubles. These troubles are chasing you every day like killers, making you frightened.
The Gao An brothers never taught esoteric truths, they just showed them in different ways. There could be a lot of imagery stuff, like the tornado at the end. I personally don't try to force meaning. I like a hazy beauty, and some are unclear. This is called intriguing. hey i like it.

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Extended Reading
  • Sidney 2021-11-28 08:01:18

    Everything is indifferent, everything is fatal; everything is important, nothing is important; a dying man. Who cares.

  • Lexie 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    if you serious you lose.

A Serious Man quotes

  • Larry Gopnik: There's some mistake. I'm not a member of the Columbian Record Club.

    Dick Dutton: Sir, you are Lawrence Gopnik of 8419 Fern Hill Road?

    Larry Gopnik: No, I live at the Jolly Roger.

  • Dybbuk?: I shaved hastily this morning and missed a bit-by you this makes me a dybbuk? It's true, I was sick with typhus when I stayed with Peselle, but I recovered, as you can plainly see, and now I-hugh!

    [She stabs him in the chest with an ice pick]

    Dybbuk?: What a wife you have!

    Shtetl Husband: Woman, what have you done?

    Dybbuk?: Why would she do such a thing? I ask you, Velvel, as a rational man: which of us is possessed?

    Shtetl Wife: What do you say now about spirits? He is unharmed!

    Dybbuk?: On the contrary! I don't feel at all well.

    [Blood begins to seep from his chest]

    Dybbuk?: One does a mitzvah and this is the thanks one gets?

    Shtetl Husband: Dora! Woe, woe! How can such a thing be!

    Dybbuk?: Perhaps I will have some soup. I am feeling weak. Or perhaps I should go. One knows when one isn't wanted.

    Shtetl Husband: Dear wife. We are ruined. Tomorrow they will discover the body. All is lost.

    Shtetl Wife: Nonsense, Velvel. Blessed is the Lord. Good riddance to evil.