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a more interesting analysis

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tunenut

In Reply to: RE: The message was just as boring as the rest of it posted by Jazz Inmate on February 03, 2010 at 14:13:06

of this remarkable film from the Daily Forward.
http://zeek.forward.com/articles/115950/ (Open in New Window)

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"For hanging there in plain sight is a two-month calendar showing May and June of 1967" - Jazz Inmate 12:29:24 02/04/10 (0)
Sorry, tunenut, but that review is banal and there is much the reviewer is missing. He astutely points out the calendar and its date, but then ties this to popular culture. Huh? His review up until then had praised Serious Man for rejecting popular culture and inviting us into a different world. Then he points out the six-day war, June 5-10, which also coincide with the film's timing. An existential threat to Israel, just as there is an existential threat to the protagonist's family. And the way the movie ends, which I won't give away, is not very optimistic to put it kindly. What was "hilarious" about a kid getting stoned to read from the Torah? And that was the climax of the film--to make a mockery of the Jewish ceremony of becoming a man. I found all the Coens' choices quirky at best--though they have done "quirky" elsewhere far better--and on the darker side, readily given to the demonization of Jews, Judaism and Israel.
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