Critics say their work is mostly violent, involving many absurd coincidences and endings, even if the reasons for what happened are logical or definite. Obviously, before watching a serious man, I was very unfamiliar with their work style, which caused me to feel extremely uncomfortable with the whole movie both mentally and visually. When the audience burst into laughter one after another throughout the cinema, I felt that I was on the verge of suffocation, and I had the urge to leave my seat and escape the darkness several times.
For a superficial me, just superficially interpreting the film as an interpretation of a midlife crisis has already caused a huge emotional trauma to my self, not to mention a deep understanding of the meaning of the so-called uncertainty of life. When the end-credits shot came to a screeching halt when the tornado approached the town streets from afar, most of the audience looked in disbelief. Well, life is full of uncertainties, such as a tornado that may strike at any time, making an orderly life all over the place. A person who takes life seriously does not necessarily accept the occasional jokes in life, and when it cannot be explained from the perspective of conventional scientific derivation, turning to religion does not seem to get more help, so everything goes back to the beginning of the film "receive with simplicity everything that happens to you”. This is the answer given by the Coen brothers.
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