GimmeTheBall!
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"A Serious Man."
This really nice guy, a family man, starts experiencing rough spots in his life.
And he seeks cosmic answers to why these things are happening to him.
And, as one online critic said, "he keeps getting a metaphysical pie in the face."
Throughout the movie the directors (the Cohen Brothers) have laugh-out-loud scenes, connected by eerie occurences and mini family disasters. One jewish dentist examines a goy's teeth and behind each teeth of this goy man are letters that spell out. Please Help Me or something like that.
The leading man's wife decides to divorce him and marry a smarmy famioy acquaintance. His brother is constantly in the bathroom draining a growth on the back of his neck. His daughter is insolent; his son is smoking dope and getting into trouble at school; his student gives him an envelope full of bribe money to get a good grade on an exam; his neighbor is a tea partier-like guy who menaces him; his tenture committee is acting like he won't get tenure; his finances are in disarray; his sexy neighbor lady puts moves on him (well that is not a bad thing).
He asks questions and the universe laughs at him.
What is a guy to do except seek out his rabbi. Well, the main rabbi won't speak to him. The other two rabbis are idiots.
Where are the answers?
The Cohen brothers respond with the idea that there are none. Life throws all it can on some people and that is life.
All this against a lime-green backdrop of cookie-cutter homes and green lawns in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of the mid 1960s.
He adjust the antenna atop his home and his son finally can see his belived "F Troop" on the TV.
Something goes right. For once.
But the universe is still laughing and the Cohen brothers stick the knife into this sad, beleaguered guy and then they twist it.
A parable for the isolated people of this world.
Hey, next time I review "Truck Stop Women."
This really nice guy, a family man, starts experiencing rough spots in his life.
And he seeks cosmic answers to why these things are happening to him.
And, as one online critic said, "he keeps getting a metaphysical pie in the face."
Throughout the movie the directors (the Cohen Brothers) have laugh-out-loud scenes, connected by eerie occurences and mini family disasters. One jewish dentist examines a goy's teeth and behind each teeth of this goy man are letters that spell out. Please Help Me or something like that.
The leading man's wife decides to divorce him and marry a smarmy famioy acquaintance. His brother is constantly in the bathroom draining a growth on the back of his neck. His daughter is insolent; his son is smoking dope and getting into trouble at school; his student gives him an envelope full of bribe money to get a good grade on an exam; his neighbor is a tea partier-like guy who menaces him; his tenture committee is acting like he won't get tenure; his finances are in disarray; his sexy neighbor lady puts moves on him (well that is not a bad thing).
He asks questions and the universe laughs at him.
What is a guy to do except seek out his rabbi. Well, the main rabbi won't speak to him. The other two rabbis are idiots.
Where are the answers?
The Cohen brothers respond with the idea that there are none. Life throws all it can on some people and that is life.
All this against a lime-green backdrop of cookie-cutter homes and green lawns in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of the mid 1960s.
He adjust the antenna atop his home and his son finally can see his belived "F Troop" on the TV.
Something goes right. For once.
But the universe is still laughing and the Cohen brothers stick the knife into this sad, beleaguered guy and then they twist it.
A parable for the isolated people of this world.
Hey, next time I review "Truck Stop Women."
