A joke came to mind, someone in pain went to complain to the pastor. He said: Didn't you convey God's will last time that all my troubles are over? But now I'm still worried to death. The pastor replied calmly: Yes! That's what I said, but troubles have a beginning and a disappearing end, and I didn't tell you where they ended. After watching "A Serious Man", you will find that sometimes people really don't know where they are in life. This translated name is actually too blunt and serious. There are several "Serious Man" in the film. To put it more precisely, they are called serious people—a very formal term, which is probably the one who has a good face and a good life in society. humanoid. They are not serious, even if they are overwhelmed, those who have no reason to say anything and are full of helplessness are sour and sour, which makes people laugh.
The Coen brothers (EthanCoen/JoelCoen) are of Jewish origin. To interpret "Serious People", you must understand Jewish religious customs and living habits. The reason why the interpretation is used must be that many people have not been able to relax after going through it. Why did the unfortunate Larry go to the Rabbi again and again? After all, it is not because the spiritual leader has to play the role of guiding the maze. The film also features three different rabbis, from "New Rabbi", "Middle Rabbi" and "Great Rabbi", who all explained ambiguous answers to Larry. As a result, Larry's predicament could not be resolved, and his son had finished his bar mitzvah under the stimulation of marijuana.
In fact, Larry seemed to be in a quagmire all of a sudden, and the Coen brothers didn't set the stage for "recently annoying". It looks like a mid-life crisis has erupted, and it also feels a bit like life itself is crumbling. He filled the blackboard with dense numbers of terrifying numbers and formulas, which revealed the disconnect between theory and reality. He couldn't calculate and predict why so many troubles would follow. Larry's pain is all-round: there are students who pay bribes at work, anonymous letters to report, he is bitten by people in his life, his neighbors are not harmonious, his wife is divorced in the family, his children are rebellious, his brother is not up to his expectations, and the police still come to the door. Looking at his tragic appearance in front of his rival, you will pity this guy, and just wait for a long cry to the sky: God, why are you treating me; There are a lot of lines in this movie, dialogues and dialogues, and the lines must be carefully understood. Several paragraphs about the rabbi are very interesting.
Going back to the background of the film, the Coen brothers happened to be growing teenagers in the 1960s, and they mentioned something related to themselves through the film. That's not necessarily all from the parents, but at least a large part of it was their inspiration. This movie is about a serious man and his stupid things. At first he didn't believe it or recognize it, and later he got it. so what? who cares. [Southern Capital]
This is not a giggling comedy, on the contrary, it is a twitch of life. Even so, the movie is still interesting. —Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
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