Serious Men, Not Serious Movie Reviews

Erika 2022-04-21 09:01:55

Intuitive judgment with endowment comes from a deep understanding of life, which is the source of wisdom.
In contrast, the tendency to rational judgment, serious restraint and prudence, this is the source of wisdom.
Boys and girls of the same age, girls are usually more mature thinking, Freud's theory is that girls have more insecurities than boys, which gives birth to female intelligence.

Are wisdom and intelligence the same thing?

After watching the absurd film "Serious Men" over the weekend, and the laughing translation of "Very Silly Man Bizarrely Divorced",
it is obvious that this is a serious middle-aged man filmed by a serious male director. A serious film about serious topics in life.

After watching this movie, I became serious and seriously thought about a serious problem:

Larry, a physics professor at the University of Reason and Sensibility, filled 9 blackboards with equations under the surprised eyes of students while spitting. Uncertain scientific arguments, but he can't cope with the uncertainty of everyday life.

Well-dressed Larry can talk quantum mechanics and tell you that the uncertainty after atomic decay causes Schrödinger's cat to die or live, but he still He handed over his home to his wife and his wife's lover to build a love nest together, and was coaxed to live in an express hotel like Home (Roger transliteration)

North Korean students used money to buy points, son smoked marijuana, daughter had nose job, wife had an affair , A neurotic geek who has no ability to live violates the law, suffers a serious illness in his routine physical examination, and a tornado that rises from the ground unexpectedly. . . . Where to go,

a smart professor who is short-suffered, a brain is muddled, how does life come to this? He defended: I HAVE DONE NOTHING. I didn't do anything?

Smart professors, unwise
men, serious men, funny clowns, real
life, absurd tragedy

The predicament of the man, who did nothing wrong on the surface, was brutally raped by life.


Western philosophy advocates rational scientific rigor, while the East emphasizes perceptual moderation and inaction. Easterners see that Westerners are really tiring and take things seriously. For example, Professor Larry, if he follows the advice of the father of a North Korean student, he can achieve a win-win situation with money. Why bother with the bottom line of morality? Asian Dad said: If you accuse my son of bribing you, then we will never admit to it (the bribe envelope is not signed), and if you give the money to you, we will both agree to be at peace with each other. This episode is really stunning. On the one hand, it is the big PK of the Eastern and Western ideological camps, and on the other hand, the physics professor who talks about the uncertainty of the uncertain Schrödinger cat is bribed by the uncertainty.




Going back to rationality and sensibility,

generally speaking,
Chinese people do things by being human beings, and everything is sympathetic. Westerners are also doing things, and their handling is objective, Chinese people are confused, Westerners confuse

men with reason and decisiveness, women are emotionally implicated, men are rigid, and women are stupid.

Smart people are easily misunderstood by basic things.


Rationality tells me that life is nothing, and it is empty in the same way.
Sensibility tells me to live in the moment, there is no need to be more serious and

dialectical, it is necessary to balance

and reject seriousness, and to stay away from vulgarity.

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Extended Reading

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.