First let me say, I totally "get" the Coen brothers' humor, having seen almost all their films. Last night I was in the mood for a funny movie and in this ad from the New York Times the word Funny was mentioned 3 times with the words Hilarious and Comedy.
Well, A Serious Man wasn't any of the three, in my opinion. It was mostly depressing with a couple of snickers...like a real life you don't want to actually live. A Serious Man defines the word Drama and I wasn't in the mood for one of those. Totally disappointed. I should have paid more attention to the word Serious.
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What about the Book of Job don't you get? Don't answer, there are no answers. Just give it one hand of applause.
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I wanted to see a comedy not a dramatization of the book of Job.
I enjoyed "A Serious Man" immensely. Like all the Coen Brothers movies that I've seen, it was both very funny and thought provoking. It's definitely not a feel good movie, but a "drama"? You can't be serious.
Yes I am a serious man.
Anonymous above G.o.D...
Are you Jewish? I saw it, I am Jewish, I think some of the humor would be lost on a non-Jew. Although I thought it funny at times, it was tedious most of the time.
SSD...
Not Jewish, Irish-Am, well read. Tedious? Try Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill. No, not side splitting funny like like Angela's Ashes, but it had its humane humor. (Note: the classic Yiddish play "The Dybbuk," would make a great Chinese opera.)
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Hey egg heads! I never got further than writing about the fire imagery in James Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" ...however, this ain't egg head. I went to see a comedy as in Fargo. I wanted amusing as in LAUGHING. This was on an entirely different plane, than Lady Killers -- my favorite after Fargo.
Read the reviews next time or listen to Terry Gross,
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yes, i read the little one line reviews from the New York Times...not enough.
Well then there's "Good Hair," a sort of "Autobiography of Malcolm X," meets Barbie doll. Much for fathers of daughters to ponder, and since EOM likes to follow the money if not "cherhez la femme," there's an answer to the mystery of "where did the money for the down payment go?" (hint: it wasn't 40 pairs of Manolo Blanachs or however one spells it).
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Another reason to like this movie...A local girl, Sari Lennick, does a great job as the wife of protagonist Larry Gopnik.
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