Comments on: Stand still, I’m trying to smite you: A Serious Man

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:34:50 +0000

Really love this review and really loved the film too- for all the reasons described above. You hit every nail on the head.

By: forex robot

forex robot — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:25:40 +0000

Amazing as always :)

By: Yosh

Yosh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:04:41 +0000

Great film. Great last scene. I find it hard to express why I found this to be such a profoundly anti-nihilistic viewing experience, just as I did with No Country for Old Men. Although they're both films in which bad shit is relentlessly heaped upon the head of the mostly blameless protagonist, I found them to be somehow really life-affirming—without there needing to be a sappy moral at the end. Is that just my personal interpretation, or is that really what the Coens intended? I don't know, we'll never know. Still ... above everything else, A Serious Man was seriously entertaining. I give them a lot of credit for that.

By: James Robert Douglas

James Robert Douglas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:04:25 +0000

The Rabbi quoted some Jefferson Airplane lyrics (the song on the credits, the one the son was listening to on the radio), and then listed the names of the band members. Hilarious, and fitting.

I tend to think the Coen’s believe that the kid has it all worked out. Smoke pot, borrow money, lie, steal, listen to rock and roll; it’s all okay if you can get away with it, and keep one step ahead of everyone else. Whereas Larry just cannot, or maybe will not, ever get ahead.

Also, amazing last scene.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:11:44 +0000

Loved your review Zora, and would be curious to know if you could make sense of the last Rabbi’s words to the kid. What the?
I too found Larry quite loveable and attractive. Disturbingly, he could be the lovechild of Johnny Galecki and Fred Savage.