Why so “Serious Man”?
Larry Gopnik’s life is, like, really stressful right now. His wife is leaving him for a real jerk; he’s up for tenure and probably isn’t going to get it; his stoner, troublemaking son is about to be bar mitzvah; his indignantly superficial daughter wants a nose job; his brother keeps getting arrested and has nowhere to live; he’s having money problems.
“A Serious Man” — the Coen brothers’ latest pseudo-drama-comedy thing — chronicles Larry’s dire circumstances in order to explore karma, god, the unexplained and the human instinct to impose meaning on random events.
By design, the...
Sorry, Sam, you don't "get" the picture at all. And it does have not only resolution but thematic depth. You haven't dealt with the math! For that you get an "F."