At 41 minutes of the film, the conversation between the protagonist and the father of the Korean student is coming to an end, and
he said: "It doesn't make sense, either he left the money or he didn't!" The
Korean father said, "Please, some things are mysterious!"
(From the plot Look, keeping the money is actually a sure thing, but whether you keep it or not, isn't it your decision? - Chinese people know this well)
42 minutes of the film, the protagonist has a dialogue with a lady, the
lady said "Sometimes these things are not doomed, it may take a while before you can feel what has always been there. Whether it's good or bad." The
protagonist: "I don't feel it at all! ... What's wrong, I think things should be like this, but everything turned out differently!"
Ms.: "Then, this is an opportunity to learn to accept the facts..."
(Actually, the lady's words already make it clear, are things doomed? In fact, many Things are subjective changes that can affect the results, but the protagonist does nothing, passively accepts everything, but cannot accept the reality.)
The film is 1 hour, 9 minutes and 45 seconds. The protagonist explains the "uncertainty principle" in class,
Saying, "That's the uncertainty principle, which proves that we can't really understand what's going on." The
bell rang and the students got up,
he added, "But even if you don't understand, the midterms will still be taken!"
(Yes, even if We can't understand what happened, time goes on, what should happen is still going to happen, the protagonist says this to others, but what about himself? He doesn't realize he's caught in it too.)
Then the boyfriend of the dead wife shows up and says, "I know what's going on, but at this juncture in my life, so what?"
Protagonist: "This is mathematics" The
wife's boyfriend said, "Math is the art of possibility. "
Protagonist: "I don't agree"
(When you accept everything and face it calmly, in fact, everything is possible, but the hero still doesn't realize it)
The wife's boyfriend finally said to him "I fucked your wife!" He finally woke up from the dream. It turned out that he had always told the lawyer that his wife had not cheated, but the end of the dream showed that his subconscious had always believed that his wife had cheated. This can better reflect the reason why he is so depressed in reality. ——He passively accepts the reality of the accused, but he cannot accept it. He has his ideas, but he is a "serious person", and he must maintain this "seriousness" in reality.
In fact, if you carefully review some details, you will find that the title of "serious man" is actually mentioned from time to time in the film. Maybe this film is not talking about "certainty" and "uncertainty" at all. What it wants to say is only through these superficial determinations Tell people with uncertainty and uncertainty, why do you want to be a "serious person" against your own humanity? ! be yourself! Face yourself! Get out of someone else's life and live your own life!
Is it not? In the film, he was repeatedly harassed by his son's phone calls, just to let him repair the TV antenna; he was always complained by his daughter that he had no place to wash his hair because his uncle occupied the bathroom! (So much so that when he described his experience to the old rabbi's secretary later, he said that his daughter could only say "she washes her hair most of the time!" How ridiculous!) Many times he was disturbed by neighbors, because of the inexplicable boundary problem, for the sake of Worrying about his brother's various eccentric derailment behaviors, he is actually "living" for almost no moment in the film! Maybe if anything, it was the moment he smoked marijuana in the house with the neighbor's wife, and at that moment he became himself, but it was also in a passive situation, because he didn't dare to knock on the door at all! It was the woman who came out to invite him in; smoking marijuana was also invited. But this "relaxation" was short-lived, and with the arrival of the police car, he once again returned to reality. That's why he dreamed of an affair with a neighbor's woman again, and it could only be done in a dream, but even in the dream, a strong sense of responsibility to be "a serious person" drove him to be punished!
On the other hand, his son has always been a completely different person from him, and has been acting uninhibitedly as himself, but everything went well, even in the face of the tornado at the end, his expression was calm.
So, facing everything and letting go of everything, this may be what the film really wants to say. Didn't the film give a line at the beginning, "Accept whatever happens to you calmly." (Recevie with simplicity everything that happens to you.)
In fact, the words of the three rabbis also summed up, the young man said, "Look at it from another angle. Problems”, the middle-aged said, “Let go of everything and don’t have to worry about the present”, and the older said, “When the truth is discovered to be a lie, all hope disappears.” So, why bother?
"don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love "
the song the son in the video keeps listening to is not also trying to make people understand, go Love, what is love? How can you know if you don't experience life and bury your head in trivial matters! ?
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