Review of A Serious Man (2009) by Trent L — 17 Dec 2011
The Coen's best screenplay and yet another masterwork to add to there ridiculous library. This is kinda like the Coen's version of 'The Seventh Seal' using elements from there own life, especially there childhood.
The cast is perfect. Michael Stuhlbarg is brilliant, I hope and pray he becomes a Coen regular. I could comment on every performance in great detail. A.O. Scott already said it in his review but what really caught me off guard was how the movie was shot, chopped and scored like a horror film.
It's billed as a bleak, dark comedy. But the laughs and chuckles are like those horrendous days you've had then you come home to sit down and eat a bagel with cream cheese and you drop the bagel cream cheese side down on the carpet.
This film is so personal and hit me right where I lived that all I could do was laugh. I laughed at the end of the movie the first time but I have a feeling if I saw it again I would cry like a baby.
This review of A Serious Man (2009) was written by Trent L on 17 Dec 2011.
A Serious Man has generally received positive reviews.
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