I'm Serious!

Anyone who watches every movie made by the Coen Brothers and doesn't like at least one of them has serious issues, such as their lack of friends caused by them being boring, inability to experience joy, dissatisfaction with everything, and an IQ lower than 30. Whether or not they're the best is debatable, but they've made a decent variety of movies with a somewhat consistent quality throughout. The biggest consistency unifying movies like O Brother, Where Art Thou and No Country for Old Men is that the Coen brothers make movies that are different. Sometimes, different is a euphemism for weird, while other times it means unique.

Their newest movie, A Serious Man, goes as far to the point of weird as any Coen Brother movie has ever gone and keeps going until no one's bothered to keep track of the factoring thing anymore. I've seen some people address certain happenings of the movie as subplots, but the etymology of that word means under the main plot, so I don't see how this movie could have a subplot. I suppose you could argue that the main character's attempts to resolve each and every one of these subplots simultaneously could be considered a main plot, but calling something a main plot when it couldn't exist without the subplots seems like a zetta shady use of the word.

"No main plot? Why the factor should I see this movie?" Well, A Serious Man doesn't strike me as the kind of movie that wants to entertain. The phrase Postmodern Literature comes to mind when I think of A Serious Man. For some of you, that label may conjure up bad memories of high school English class. And believe me, it does for me, too. But the problem with Postmodern Literature is that they tried to make reading hard. However, you can't make watching a movie hard for anyone who doesn't have epilepsy. Sure, there was a bit of confusion when you watched the movie, and I can't say I loved the movie until the morning after I watched it when I realized the whole thing was genius, but it doesn't feel like a chore the way Postmodern Literature does. I never hated the movie.

Furthermore, there were still plenty of parts scattered amongst the confusion that I could understand, most notably scenes questioning faith and religion. Some scenes made more sense after I was given time to think, particularly the ending, which I would declare a moment of genius. There are some scenes I still don't understand the meaning of, and, as such, still think about them a bit too much.

Now, based on the fact that Raam and I were the only ones in the theaters not laughing every two seconds, I realize I can't say you'll watch A Serious Man and have the exact same experience I did. Even looking at the comments on Facebook, some people have already come up with interpretations vastly different than me. So don't have any objective expectations if you do watch this movie; that would be zetta retarded.

On a side note, I saw a negative view criticizing this movie for being misanthropic. Let's exclude for the fact that this movie can be interpreted multiple ways, and, using the same principle as the rorschach blot test, if you perceived such misanthropic themes, that says something about you and not the factoring movie. Let's focus on the fact that, by complaining, you lost you're right to complain because idiots like you who give movies bad reviews for challenging their world view and not giving them a sticker in the shape of a star labeled: "You're special!" are exactly the kind of people who cause others to be misanthropes. Be the change you want to see in the world; stop sucking at lifes and the misanthropes will go away.