Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A Serious Man

Coen brothers

Oddball little film. Essentially a modern-day treatment of the Job story...a decent man has one catastrophe after another smite him which causes him to wonder at god's purpose.

Heavy emphasis on jewishness which unfortunately tended to move the themes away from universality and I thought limited its appeal. Some humor was sprinkled here and there which did serve to lighten it a bit.

But I found myself wondering why this was made and what we were supposed to get out of it.

Not one of their better efforts.

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