A Serious Man (2009)

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	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, True Grit)
	Actors: Michael Stuhlbarg (Hugo, Men in Black 3), Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 12.10.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: During the year 1967, in an anonymous city of the midwest of the USA, the life of this middle-aged Jewish man is starting to turn sour: wife, kids, job, health. Should he turn towards Faith to solve his problems.
Review: Yes the movie is well done, yes the characters and dialogs are typical of the Coen Brothers, yes the year 1967 is very well reproduced, but I got lost in the movie and didn't feel involved, maybe because I am not part of the Jewish community. The movie turned out to be very religious although I didn't expect it. I had to watch parts of the making-of to understand the purpose of the movie. There I learned that it was done mainly for the Jewish community, but also for others to discover its tradition, and that it was not intended to provide answers to the questions it raises, but merely to hint that eveybody is looking for those answers, and that you can practice Religion to help you find them, although Religion mught tell you to look for yourself. Interestingly enough, this movie reminds me of another one I have seen recently, God Bless America, because of the similar starting point but then the period, way of filming and characters reaction are totally different. In God Bless America the main characters decides to kill all the people that piss him off, while in A Serious Man he accepts his situations and turns to Religion for help.
Rating: 4 /10