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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A Serious Man quotes

  • Rabbi Scott: No, of course not. I am the junior rabbi. And it's true, the point-of-view of somebody who's older and perhaps had similar problems might be more valid. And you should see the senior rabbi as well, by all means. Or even Minda if you can get in, he's quite busy. But maybe - can I share something with you? Because I too have had the feeling of losing track of Hashem, which is the problem here. I too have forgotten how to see Him in the world. And when that happens you think, well, if I can't see Him, He isn't there any more, He's gone. But that's not the case. You just need to remember how to see Him. Am I right?

    [He rises and goes to the window]

    Rabbi Scott: I mean, the parking lot here. Not much to see. It is a different angle on the same parking lot we saw from the Hebrew school window. But if you imagine yourself a visitor, somebody who isn't familiar with these... autos and such... somebody still with a capacity for wonder... Someone with a fresh... perspective. That's what it is, Larry.

    Larry Gopnik: Um...

    Rabbi Scott: Because with the right perspective you can see Hashem, you know, reaching into the world. He is in the world, not just in shul. It sounds to me like you're looking at the world, looking at your wife, through tired eyes. It sounds like she's become a sort of... thing... a problem... a thing...

    Larry Gopnik: Well, she's, she's seeing Sy Ableman.

    Rabbi Scott: Oh.

    Larry Gopnik: She's, they're planning, that's why they want the Gett.

    Rabbi Scott: Oh. I'm sorry.

    Larry Gopnik: It was his idea.

    Rabbi Scott: Well, they do need a Gett to remarry in the faith. But this is life. For you too. You can't cut yourself off from the mystical or you'll be-you'll remain-completely lost. You have to see these things as expressions of God's will. You don't have to like it, of course.

    Larry Gopnik: The boss isn't always right, but he's always the boss.

    Rabbi Scott: Ha-ha-ha! That's right, things aren't so bad. Look at the parking lot, Larry.

    [Rabbi Scott gazes out, marveling]

    Rabbi Scott: Just look at that parking lot.

  • Larry Gopnik: She seems to be asking an awful lot. But then, I don't know. Somebody has to pay for Sy's funeral.

    Rabbi Nachtner: Uh-huh.

    Larry Gopnik: His own estate is in probate, but why does it have to be me? Or is it wrong to complain? Judy says it is. But I'm so strapped for cash right now, carrying the mortgage, and paying for the Jolly Roger, and I wrecked the car, and Danny's Bar Mitzvah coming up, I...

    Rabbi Nachtner: Something like this... there's never a good time.

    Larry Gopnik: I don't know where it all leaves me, Sy's death. Obviously it's not gonna go back like it was.

    Rabbi Nachtner: Mm. Would you even want that, Larry?

    Larry Gopnik: No, I- well, yeah... sometimes... or... I don't know; I guess the honest answer is "I don't know". What was my life before? Not what I thought it was. What does it all mean? What is Hashem trying to tell me, making me pay for Sy Ableman's funeral?

    Rabbi Nachtner: Mm.

    Larry Gopnik: And did I tell you I had a car accident the same time Sy had his? The same instant, for all I know. I mean, is Hashem telling me that Sy Ableman is me? Or that we are all one, or something?

    Rabbi Nachtner: How does God speak to us? A good question.