It’s easy to finish watching a movie, but after watching it, I feel confused and don’t know what it’s saying. It’s like a blind English listening to a 50 CENT tongue-twisting song. The rhythm is good, the sound is great, but I don’t understand a word. Of course I would not like it. But if you use Kingsoft PowerWord to machine-translate all the lyrics, and then listen to it again, then maybe you will really like it from the bottom of your heart. Most of Cohen's movies are like this. They are gorgeous and look so beautiful that people will ignore them as comedies, but they are not at all. Cohen's movies can never be done with just one pass. Except for a few pure commercial films such as "Young Woman Killer" and "Cruel and Unbearable", Cohen's other films have a rigorous personal style. Under the coat of black humor, there is a hard, cold and cruel one. Core, as well as the meditation on the philosophy of life, "Serious Man" is a wonderful work that continues the style of Cohen's film. Aside from the dizzying Xuedinge theorem and uncertainty principle, I only use the illiterate It is also my own personal opinion to treat this movie in words and sentences. Quan is another educational lesson for my friends.
The story of "Serious Man" is very simple. Larry is a Jewish professor of physics and a faithful believer of God. This big and small conflict brought a lot of black humor and farce, until the end, there is no complete ending. After watching the movie for the first time, it is easy to think of Guo Da's sketches. The stories narrated are all familiar scenes around us. Wife is unfaithful, friends rob his wife, children are troubled, younger brother is mentally retarded, and promoted in fear, all of this is nothing more than It's just a farce of life, just laugh, and then wait until the tornado blows, the son stands up, the singing sounds, and the subtitles appear. It's completely confused and has no idea, but it's not like this.
Many people think that the short film at the beginning of the film has nothing to do with the film itself, but on the contrary, this short film is a very important basis for the film. Ethan said in the interview: "This story makes the film interesting. Resonance." The story of the evil spirits in the home illustrates at least three meanings:
1. Behind the miracle is not happiness (referring to farmers who get help but attract evil spirits).
2: Doing good deeds does not lead to good results (referring to evil spirits who are stabbed down without drinking the soup).
Three: Calmly accept all things encountered in life (referring to the fierce old woman killer).
Find out these three points. Behind the many farce and comedies in the movie, you can also understand what kind of movie "Serious Man" is, especially the last one is the simplest summary of the movie theme.
The protagonist, Larry, is a middle-aged confused man who is dedicated to finding answers in life in the movie. His most lines are: WHAT? What? Why? Why is it so, why is it so. Larry would never recognize the facts before him. He avoided dealing with all the difficulties in life. Whether on the beach or in the missionary's office, Larry revealed that the confusion is not how to solve life problems, but just blindly. The pursuit of life that he never felt has any problems, but it is everywhere contrary to his imagination. Extracted from the movie, the image of Larry is actually a microcosm of society. When faced with difficulties, we are all such stupid and stubborn Larry.
In the movie, Larry’s search for answers is also quite interesting. At first on the beach, the woman gave her the answer: You don’t have to bear all this alone, because we are Jewish. If we have doubts, we can always follow our ancestors Find answers in allusions. Then Larry went to find a missionary with rich knowledge of allusions. The junior missionary said: This is life. You must treat this as God's will. Of course, you don't have to like it. At this time Larry seemed to understand something, so he would say: "God is the boss, the boss is not necessarily right, but he is the boss." But this is not the best answer Larry wants, he still can't Facing the terrible things in life calmly, Larry went to the Intermediate Missionary. After telling a totally unbounded story, the master said to Larry meaningfully: Difficulties are like toothaches. After a while Will disappear. Don’t ask why the suffering is on yourself. It’s not right to find the answer. God doesn’t owe us anything, but we owe God all the time. . Obviously, this is not the answer Larry wanted, so he finally went to the Archbishop Masak, but was repeatedly rejected, and continued to be stuck in a puzzled answer. Larry’s last glimmer of hope for confusion was also shattered, but in the process, the words to persuade Larry are the most logical and clear words that we should understand in reality. If your life is different from what you imagined, it’s not the same. It does not mean that we have to explain why it is different in the end. Many things in life are unexplainable. The difficulty is like the malignant tumor on the back of my brother’s neck in the movie. It has always existed without a reason, but it will always disappear. When bad things happen to good people, we should learn how to accept reality and move on.
The role of the son in "Serious Man" was initially equal to that of the father, but after drifting away, the film began to focus on the father, and the line of son was downplayed in the middle, and it was not picked up until the end, not only Echoing before and after, this is still the most exciting ending. The beginning of the film’s merging is a metaphor for the son’s future as the father’s present (the son listens to headphones while the father’s ears are checked). The son is still stubborn and learns to read the scriptures by himself for smoothness. Through the baptism, the climax of the movie appeared in the scene of the church. The father’s waiting for baptism finally came. The son can be a serious person and continue to live in this world like himself. (Some people always question why "Serious "Man" can be nominated for the Oscar's Best Photography, so as long as those who have watched this section repeatedly will no longer have any doubts, in fact, the film deliberately uses a lot of tilt and swing photography to metaphor the uncertainty of life, Roger Deakins' The photography is really top-notch.) The ending of the movie echoes the beginning of the movie. The son stands behind the assailant classmates, and a black tornado is oncoming him, which also symbolizes that he is about to grow up and face not only human difficulties. There is also the uncertain arrangement of God.
The same black humorous coat is different from the pure irony of "Burn After Reading", "Serious Man" has a more calm and cruel core, and Cohen's methods are becoming more and more detailed and skilled, and concise and funny character dialogues. With his unique narrative style and meaningful life thinking, Cohen is no longer a sneer who only wants to express the cruelty of life in movies, but has become a philosophical master who explores the true meaning of life. Whether you can understand this movie or not, I believe that all sentient people will receive a certain meaning from the movie. If you really want to ask me what Cohen's "Serious Man" means, I have to tell you that this is just a movie about "what does it all mean", that's what the movie means. .
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