What are you doing to be a serious man?

Shana 2022-04-21 09:01:55

"Serious Men," an author-based film that can smother a cat, was born to create a topic, or a mystery. This is a movie that requires looking up a dictionary, in other words a movie you would never want to go to the theater to see. This is a film that will exclaim "It's over?!" at the end if you watch it carefully from the beginning to the end. It's a film that you can't stick to the end if you don't watch it seriously. This is a film with hidden mysteries from the introduction to the title to the credits, but it doesn't matter whether you know these mysteries or not. This is an indefinable film, a Coen brothers film.

The plot is just like that, and X doesn't want to give an introduction, because there is really nothing to say, and if you really haven't seen this film, what X will say next is to make a fool of himself. The film follows a common novel-style structure, with a famous saying as the preface, a fable as the introduction, and the story unfolds in three paragraphs, with two main and auxiliary story lines. Wraps the upper layers of decoration around the false proposition of certainty, fantasy stories, Judaism, law, mathematics, quantum physics, psychedelics, existentialism, mysticism, agnosticism, atheism, the 1960s, American middle class, death, conspiracy, sex. Finally tell you that all this is nonsense, all attempts to find certainty are futile, and if things do happen, don't be so serious. Yes, the theme of the film (if there really is a theme) is negative to the bone, rambles about the uncertainty of life from beginning to end, and depicts scenes of life that are both reasonable and absurd. . This kind of description is like a person who is constantly narrating his own extreme tragedy, but others just keep repeating some meaningless details, and everything looks extremely funny. So, if you really don't have the time or interest to watch this film, you can just watch the preface and introduction, which is the same as watching the whole film. The magic of a fable is that you can read it in just a cup of coffee, but experience it in a long or short time like a lifetime.

If a friend who helped you comes to your house on a snowy night and your wife firmly tells you that the person is dead, how can you be sure that it is a human or a ghost? Side-talking, politely inquiring? Besides, an ice pick pierced its chest? Everyone has reasons to make their own choices, and everyone's choices are rational and justified. Anyway, the choice is made, the action is taken, and everyone expects a reasonable outcome, as if every multiple-choice question has a correct and a wrong answer, and opening the cage we will eventually know the cat's life and death. But no, all the choices are just infinitely magnifying the absurd step by step, even if the ice pick in the chest is bleeding, it still laughs and leaves, you never know that you will find one the next morning. A corpse will still encounter its visit again. Try to solve one problem, you end up with two problems, which is the absurdity and comicality of life, and the dilemma that no one can avoid. So we saw a serious man who never dared to take a step forward. He kept encountering all kinds of bad things, until the moment when the wind seemed calm, he was completely overwhelmed by a bigger storm. He also fantasized about jumping out of the rules and regulations of life, about getting rid of everything, so he went to the rabbi to seek God’s help, to the lawyer to ask for law and order, to have a spiritual affair with a female neighbor, to smoke marijuana, to keep going. I dreamed and woke up constantly, but in the end, everything was in vain. Even the simple repair of the TV antenna eventually turned into a ridiculous situation where the fourth channel was repaired but the seventh channel could not be received. At the same time Added an annoyance (highlight). In the films of the Coen brothers, the meanings are all illusory, and the absurd is the eternal theme, so when I watched this film, I even laughed, but I couldn't tell whether I was mocking or helpless. In the last minute, the story took a sharp turn (well, you found out, it was made up by someone, the director didn't want the story to have a climax at all), the protagonist got cancer, the protagonist's son suffered a big storm, and then "click" The credits and the ending song came out as soon as the movie was released. A certain felt that the protagonist would definitely go and sell drugs together with his family and his students, and eventually become a local tyrant, because this film is basically a prequel to "Drug Maker". what.

Here, I sincerely apologize to everyone on behalf of myself on behalf of the authors of this film, for actually making such a positive (green bully system automatic harmony) film that murders brain cells and harms young people and children, after all, if we are already in the Having gone through everything, it is destined to be a thankless thing to write a fable to summarize it all. So I recommend everyone to watch the newly filmed "Sherlock Holmes". It is really fun. It has entertainment, stories, character and love. This is a good movie. The only regret is that if Sherlock Holmes can use more similar The steampunk equipment of the "silenced pistol" is even better. Think about how spectacular the Sherlock Holmes version of Gangdamu vs. Moriarty's version of Godzilla is. Fortunately, this movie is definitely going to make a sequel, anything is possible. Or you can challenge your own lower limit and watch the legendary "Hang Zi", which is "a new height of domestic movies", which is "hard to get one ticket and over 100 million at the box office", and enjoy looking for a front in a theater that is "full and full". It is a high-level enjoyment such as lying down and watching a movie in a row of four seats. In short, fully enjoy the various uncertainties of life.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you with a simple heart

------Famous Rabbi rashi

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  • Kole 2021-11-28 08:01:18

    It's simply @薛定谔's dish.

  • Julianne 2022-04-23 07:01:52

    Why is Cohen getting more and more... But this may be the film that most directly illustrates the central idea of ​​Cohen's film.

A Serious Man quotes

  • Larry Gopnik: Please. I need help. I've already talked to the other rabbis. Please. It's not about Danny's bar mitzvah - my boy Danny, this coming Shabbos, very joyous event, that's all fine. It's, it's more about myself, I've... I've had quite a bit of tsuris lately. Marital problems, professional, you name it. This is not a frivolous request. This is a ser- I'm a ser- I'm, uh, I've tried to be a serious man, you know? Tried to do right, be a member of the community, raise the- Danny, Sarah, they both go to school, Hebrew school, a good breakfast... Well, Danny goes to Hebrew school, Sarah doesn't have time, she mostly... washes her hair. Apparently there are several steps involved, but you don't have to tell Marshak that. Just tell him I need help. Please? I need *help*.

    [the secretary rises, goes to the door behind her, opens it, shuffles into the dimness where she speaks quietly with the aged rabbi, who is idle. She shuffles back, closes the door and sits down]

    Marshak's Secretary: The rabbi is busy.

    Larry Gopnik: He didn't look busy!

    Marshak's Secretary: He's thinking.

  • Judith Gopnik: We shouldn't put the kids in the middle of this, Larry.

    Larry Gopnik: The kids aren't...

    Judith Gopnik: I'm saying "we." I'm not pointing fingers.

    Larry Gopnik: No one is playing the "blame game," Larry.

    Larry Gopnik: I didn't say anyone was!

    Judith Gopnik: Well let's not play He said, She said, either.

    Larry Gopnik: I wasn't! I-...

    Sy Ableman: Aw right, well let's just step back, and defuse the situation, I find, sometimes, if I count to ten.

    [pause]

    Sy Ableman: One... two... three... faw... Or silently.

    [Long pause]

    Judith Gopnik: Really, to keep things on an even keel, especially now, leading up to Danny's bar mitzvah...

    Sy Ableman: A child's bar mitzvah, Larry!

    Judith Gopnik: Sy and I think it's best if you move out of the house.

    Larry Gopnik: Move out?

    Sy Ableman: It makes eminent sense.

    Judith Gopnik: Things can't continue as they...

    Larry Gopnik: Move out! Where would I go?

    Sy Ableman: Well, for instance, the Jolly Roger is quite livable. Not expensive, and the rooms are eminently habitable.

    Judith Gopnik: This would allow you to visit the kids.

    Sy Ableman: There's convenience in its fava. There's a pool...

    Larry Gopnik: Wouldn't it make more sense for you to move in with Sy?

    Judith Gopnik: [Shocked pause] Larry!

    Sy Ableman: Larry, you're jesting!

    Judith Gopnik: Larry, there is much to accomplish before that can happen.

    Sy Ableman: Larry, Larry, Larry. I think, really, the Jolly Roger is the appropriate coss of action. It has a pool.