Review of A Serious Man (2009) by Richarde. — 24 Oct 2009
All in all, I prefer the book to the movie .... At least in The Book of Job, you get an outright accusation that God might be a putz ("It is all one; therefore I say, / he destroys both the blameless and the wicked" [9.
22]), and in The Book of Job God responds to the accusation, sort of: The tornado gets a long speech ("Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind ..." [chs. 38-41]). Still, good flick, if very, very painful brand of comedy.
(But, then, Job is itself, as it now stands in Scripture, is a kind of painful comedy.
This review of A Serious Man (2009) was written by Richarde. on 24 Oct 2009.
A Serious Man has generally received positive reviews.
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