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A Serious Man [Coens]

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knives:
This was great, easily their best thing since The Man Who Wasn't There. I have a few small quibbles, but they're mostly limited to 'not the same punch as Barton Fink'. Amazingly powerful ending though. Very funny too in a dry sort of way.

Bastardous Bassist:
Man, I've heard this movie is essentially, "lol, Jews!" I was hoping it would be funny.

WriterofAllWrongs:
This movie isn't coming within 100 miles of me. 


fuck you alabama

knives:

--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 12 Oct 2009, 14:09 ---Man, I've heard this movie is essentially, "lol, Jews!" I was hoping it would be funny.

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Not really, at least not any more than your average Seinfeld episode. It focuses more on the humour inherent in trying to be a respected member of society, in being a serious man.

Inlander:
I saw this movie a couple of days ago. One of their best movies in ages, in my opinion. (I didn't like Burn After Reading and while I enjoyed No Country For Old Men I didn't get everything out of it that I felt I should have, given the hype.) If you have any interest in the Coen brothers you should definitely see this movie. A warning, the ending is very abrupt - but it's also perfectly in keeping with everything that's gone before it in the movie. The way the Coens manage to get constant laughs just out of the way they frame the action and position their actors is amazing, even when nothing's being said, is amazing, and the film's simultaneously surprisingly moving and constantly undercutting itself whenever it feels like it might be starting to stray into sentimentality (which isn't very often).

A constant refrain in the reviews I've read has been to mention the Book of Job, and that seems pretty accurate - the Coens have basically made a comedy inspired the Book of Job.

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