Movie No. 6 (2015): A SERIOUS MAN
A Serious Man (2009)
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Larry Gopnik seeks help from three rabbi to become serious man in the midst of troubling issues: his wife asking for a divorce; his son needs to be disciplined; his daughter steals money from him to save for a nose job; a graduate student attempts to bribe and harass him; someone tries sabotages his chance for tenure in the university; his brother is unemployed and lives with his family; a neighbor steals a piece of his land; another neighbor sunbathes in the nude. Will he find answer?
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Larry Gopnik seeks help from three rabbi to become serious man in the midst of troubling issues: his wife asking for a divorce; his son needs to be disciplined; his daughter steals money from him to save for a nose job; a graduate student attempts to bribe and harass him; someone tries sabotages his chance for tenure in the university; his brother is unemployed and lives with his family; a neighbor steals a piece of his land; another neighbor sunbathes in the nude. Will he find answer?
The movie's comedy is serious and hard to digest since it suggests and questions issues related to religion: religious hypocrisy, tradition over faith, God being unforgiving, etc.
It is comedy. It is bleak. It is serious. It is worth watching.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Date seen: January 3, 2015
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