Like a hurricane, it just comes. When they came, the key could not open the door of the bomb shelter. Everyone could only stand outside and watch. Perhaps the only thing they could do was to take a closer look at the tyranny of fate in the last few minutes of life. This is the end of the movie.
The film is strongly autobiographical. The Coen brothers' father taught at college, and a sister who spent all her teenage years washing her hair, and the two brothers went to Jewish school five days a week like their son in the film, but they never liked it. But it's more than that, and it's not just about the Jews.
At the end of the movie, the American flag at the school is about to be blown away by the hurricane, and Uncle Sam turns out to be unreliable. Don't forget what happened in 1965, when the United States was mired in the Vietnam War.
Neither the Jewish law nor the American dream was lost. The world turned out not to work like the math formulas this man had written all over the blackboard. So he wondered why.
Why did fate treat him like this? He asked a spiritual guide of a higher level - the rabbis, and none of them could give an answer.
There's an even older joke where a man who was unlucky in life asked God, "Why, why, why? Why is everything wrong in my life." God said, "If only I fucking knew."
No answer, no why, that's all. Misfortune is misfortune, the world is inherently impermanent. We helpless humans can't do anything but grit our teeth and accept it.
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