It was the Jewish film "Serious Man", which probably talked about an extremely absurd life problem encountered by a physics professor.
First of all, he, Larry, is of course obsessed with physics. But nobody likes physics.
Then, he was met by a Korean student who secretly left a red envelope and asked him to pass the exam. He said it was impossible. But the student said that the red envelope has been given to him, which means he has already received it. If you don't do anything to collect money, you want him to accept bribes. It happened that the professor was about to evaluate tenure, and no one knew how to change the results. But over and over again, he couldn't make a choice.
At the same time, his wife got a psychiatrist and wanted to divorce him. The psychiatrist and Larry also knew each other, and even ran to persuade Larry, all kinds of comfort and guidance, very six. Larry didn't know how to resist, because the psychologist's psychological counseling ability was too high.
But the human soul is traumatized, and psychological counseling is temporary. So Larry went to find the rabbi and the priest. The problem is, each rabbi is more ridiculous. One of the rabbi told a story: A Goy (Gentile) had Hibravin "Save Me" on his teeth. Tell him that this means only "the Hebrew on the teeth of goy". This person is a goy. Why should I understand the Hebrew on his teeth?
The other rabbi tried to comfort Larry before he knew the situation and talked about some chicken soup, but after Larry told his plight, the rabbi said: Uh, this, it's difficult. In the end, Larry's wife's Xinhuan died suddenly, and died accidentally. God made another joke. But according to the teachings, he now needs to organize and pay for the man's funeral.
Larry's department head, before he commented on Tenure, had always spoken mysteriously. According to the plot, people felt that he must not be rated, but in the end, he said to Larry "It should be good news."
Larry's son wants a bar mitzvah and needs to chant in the hall. As a result, he smoked marijuana before starting, and it was impossible to recite it. It was also ridiculous. Suddenly he remembered the contents of the Torah again and began to recite the scriptures.
The absurd thing is that when Larry was overjoyed when he was commenting on Tenure, he suddenly received a call from the doctor, telling him "come here in person, it's better to talk in person". In the last scene of the movie, his son’s Jewish school set up a tornado alarm to evacuate everyone. The result was ridiculous, all the students were evacuated to the playground. The son saw the storm in the sky, the heavy dark clouds under the empty and clean sky of America. There is no danger, just a very heavy dark cloud.
This movie makes people have to think of a song by Regina Spektor, laughing at.
No one's laughing at god
when they've lost all they got
and they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
that the last sight they'll ever see
is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God
when they're saying their goodbyes
But God could be funny
I also have to think of "The Book of Job." The biggest difference between Job in the Bible and Ayub in the Quran is that Quran emphasizes that Ayub is a righteous man, so all trials are of no use to him, and he will not betray Allah. But at Toratri, Job was tried, and the deepest impression was, why? The suffering that Job suffered was so absurd that it was a joke from Satan.
Many people think "Serious Man" is a comedy, but I don't think it at all. This is a movie that is too Jewish to be Jewish, and Job is not to be Job. You will feel that God is everywhere, but everything is ridiculous, just as ridiculous as neurotic. Why does God write Hebrew on the teeth of a Gentile? The answer is, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, and the words you write have no meaning. Only God knows the meaning, so don't think about it. Why did God arrange for Larry to divorce and suddenly give away death? The answer is not important, God made this arrangement. No one is laughing at God in a hospital, but God could be funny.
But can you say that Larry doesn't understand God's teachings? A Jew can oppose God, hate God, and love God, but he cannot have God in his consciousness and cannot understand. Larry's younger brother, who has a chronic disease and needs intubation, was found to be a sodomy. He was arrested by the police for gambling. He was a genius in mathematics and was very naive. After Larry was driven out of the house by his ex-wife, he lived with his brother in a motel. One night, he heard his brother crying bitterly: "I didn't have anything. Now the police don't even let me play gambling." His brother continued to complain, "You There is a home and a job. Look at what God has given me. There is no fart!" Larry began to comfort him: "You can't complain about God, God has done nothing wrong, and we don't know anything about God."
God is everywhere, and people can only be like Jacob, wrestling with God until dawn, being broken with his hamstrings, and then still grabbing God and saying: You are not allowed to go. This kind of absurdity is not a satire of God, let alone a satire of rabbis and priests. It is man's own absurdity. Of course, people can treat absurdity as a comedy, so God could be funny, and we don't want to be serious men anymore.
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