A Serious Man [Filmmakers Bleed]
[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“325” caption=““Don’t you want somebody to love?””] [/caption] I’ve seen four other Coen Brothers movies before I came to this one ( Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Burn After Reading) and while some of their movies ( O Brother) tend to have a well-defined plot that makes sense (mostly on the basis of it being based on one of the oldest stories in history), most are blessed with a more realistic vision of life and the world around it. Like Burn After Reading, which immediately preceded it, A Serious Man is a movie about nothing in which random events seem to happen and no one understands why. Unlike Burn, ASM’s perceived randomness stems from an examination of Jewish religious mythology and faith, in general. ...