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LeopoldStotch
Suapremae tranecadictt
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Yawbs,Giaks,and Automobiles
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quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I can see how 99% of people who see it will absolutely despise it. It offers absolutely no resolution. It's perfect that way. |
I remember coming out of the theater, there were some mixed reactions. i say 1/3 were not satisfied with the ending, another 1/3 thought the movie was rubbish because the movie didn't really touch up on professor gopnik's situation, and the conclusion with his problems (in school with the student and at home), and the last 1/3 gave an applause. i was a part of that group. the movie was amazing.
btw, my favorite part(s) was when the son(Danny) kept on calling Prof Gopnik, even though he seperated from his wife, about the TV not working, and having to get the antenna fixed.
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Mar-29-2010 20:35
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Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
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I laughed throughout the entire movie. The way the jew preteens used fucker in every sentence and just smoked pot all the time, the way the jewish professor stuck his ass out when he was writing on the chalk board.
It was brilliantly idiosyncratic and I adored every minute of it. The film sidles the perfect line between comedy and tragedy, exactly in the same way that life itself does. The ending was ambiguous because the uncertainty of God is as well. That's just what they were on about with the uncertainty principle, Schroedinger, etc. If there was something so base as a "message" in it, I felt it was that life is shit, God is probably surd-evil, but you can either be completely serious in the face of it all, or appreciate the humour of futility.
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Mar-29-2010 20:50
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TranceGiant
randomly disappoints
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: (Strudel)-City that never sleeps
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I also think A Serious Man is ridiculously underrated. The more I think about it, the more it strikes me as my favorite Coen movie ever. I'm not sure, however, how non-Jews would be able to fully appreciate many parts of it, from the Hebrew lessons, to the dentist story to that epic Bar Mizvah scene (which you can only fully relate to if you had gone through the same procedure!). No offense, just a genuine wonderment. Anyway, as has been mentioned, the perfect balance between comedy and drama. In fact, that scene where his brother breaks down in tears at the swimming pool, crying about not letting him play poker (was that it?) really got to me. It was just shockingly real and honest.
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Mar-30-2010 03:17
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