And seriousness is an attitude of life and doing things, not bad experiences and encounters. The man in the film is a total fucking loser. If this kind of wife was ripped off, he would call him a man who hugged himself with a cuckold. To be a serious man, I think the word serious itself is a kind of joke.
I can imagine the screenwriter smoking a cigarette, drinking vodka, with a playful smile, using a sharp pen to maximize the power of ridicule and disdain, crushing this powerless "serious man", and intoxicated In the complacency of the superiority of one's own life. If seriousness is a state, the makers of this film are definitely not supporters of this state. They have no mercy to interpret the failure of this fucking loser to the extreme, compressing extreme probabilistic events in a short period of time. To the life of this "serious man", it creates an extremely oppressive atmosphere to destroy its audience. The whole movie is a total disaster (for our "Mr. Serious") and in the face of this disaster we see a little lamb who is completely disoriented"everthing i thought was one way turns out to be another", he has no power to fight back. At this time, we see that Jew, who has faith, has nothing to do with reality, and can only wait for God's redemption, so he found God's spokesperson "rabbi".
He didn't expect that the first rabbi he found was such a young guy. He told Rabbi that his wife wanted to be recognized for the divorce. When Rabbi asked him why, he said there was no reason, it was all sudden. At the same time, Rabbi was guilty. After all, he was too young in matters such as marriage, so Rabbi told him that he had troubles himself, and used similar troubles to close the distance. Then rabbi pulled the question to the parking lot outside the window very nonsensically, and used his own strange logic to deduce the conclusion, "serious man", you have lost curiosity about your wife, no freshness, if you can find it again Curiosity, maybe the wife can change her mind. Hearing this, the serious man told Rabbi that his wife and others were on good terms, and Rabbi was completely speechless on the spot (how could he need to seek God's help for such a problem!)...
The second rabbi is a leader in the community, compared to the first rabbi appears wise and sophisticated, which is reflected in their office environment. The "serious man" told Rabbi that his cuckold died in a car accident, and his wife asked him to pay for her lover's funeral. He felt that God was fooling him and wondered why God was doing this to him. The old rabbi was speechless when he heard this (pay the funeral expenses for his wife's lover! This kind of problem also needs God's help?), so rabbi told a little story about the dentist and the pagan, which was designed to tell him that God did not give No matter what disaster you have, God does not owe you, and has no obligation to tell you the answer to the riddle of life. What you have encountered is just a matter, and it will be fine to get through it. Apparently the "serious man" couldn't survive this setback, the betrayal of his wife was too terrifying for him, and he refused to accept the reality. The rabbi persuaded him to ask the oldest rabbi for help before he left.
The third rabbi was aging like a mummified corpse, and through the long corridor, the "serious man" vaguely saw rabbi sitting deep in the seat. The "serious man" begged Rabbi's secretary to let him see the wisest Rabbi to help him. The old woman secretary told the "serious man" after asking that old rabbi was too busy to help him. It can be said that after asking for countless help, the "serious man" found that he didn't get any help, he was abandoned by God, and was fooled by life.
The film runs through a strong religious atmosphere from beginning to end, which makes the atmosphere even more bizarre and mysterious. Coupled with the bizarre experiences of serious men, the whole movie plot is even more bizarre. When we show the experiences of serious men one by one, they are cuckolded, their younger brother has severe social barriers, their children are selfish and ruthless, they are bribed by students, they have car accidents, and they are seduced by strange women. These things seem to happen in normal ways in life, and there's obviously more than one way to deal with each. The screenwriter strives to make serious men look like a desperate situation, but the props used are not exaggerated, they are all real things. The screenwriter makes serious men use strange self-abuse ways to deal with problems, thus turning the normal life difficulties into unmanageable life disasters.
At the end of the film, the "serious man" seems to have finally come to his senses under the pressures of life, shaking his failing student's grades, and decides to use the money that bribes him to pay his brother's lawsuit. lawyer fee. He seems to finally find that there is no one to help him and that he can survive in the environment only by breaking the fog of "seriousness". It looks like the days ahead will be better. However, the screenwriter is obviously not as kind as me, and the "serious man" received a call from the doctor and told him to go to the hospital to talk about his X-ray (it's not hard to guess what a problem with the X-ray means). "Serious Man" is finally sentenced, and the way out of all tragedy turns out to be death. The screenwriter is obviously not optimistic that serious men can solve these life difficulties one by one by changing themselves, so everything is simple and dead. Humans who like abuse, this movie seems to be hooked.
Of course, if you look at this movie from a comedy point of view, maybe you can also find the dark humor in "Burn After Reading", such as the first rabbi, the female neighbor without a man, the daughter of a serious man, they are not serious , it can be said to be nonsensical. The strong contrast between this nonsensical and serious men gives the audience an extreme sense of awkwardness. If it can be called an art, the director will undoubtedly bring it into full play.
What can you get from watching this movie? Oh, I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time. It should be a waste of an afternoon to analyze it and read other people's movie reviews. Honestly, the plot of this movie is a piece of shit, and all you're doing is taking gold in that shit. If you have a "serious man" around you, you may stay away from him, and you may despise him and do things in a way that you don't understand. But just because this person lives in the movie, you have to accept it because you want to see the movie.
"Serious men" may exist, but such bizarre stories must not appear in life, otherwise you will be able to understand this movie. In fact, there is no need to understand this movie at all, because the person who wrote the story does not know what this thing he made is. If art has no purpose, then this film does serve its purpose.
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