There is a parable told half way through this film that sums up my views on the entire project. The message of that parable… We are posed many questions in life, to which there are no obvious answers. Why are we given questions with no answers? Well, there is no answer to that either.
At times during the Coen brothers’ “A Serious Man”, I thought I was in for another tremendously bizarre and entertaining film along the lines of their many classics like “Fargo”, “The Big Lebowski”, “Raising Arizona” & “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”. Unfortunately, it doesn;t quite pan out that way. This effort peters out to a flat, dry desert of nothingness. It left me with a totally empty heart, mind and soul. It was shockingly insignificant when compared with their other work.
I enjoyed some of the performances, and quite a few scenes worked as individual moments. As a whole, the film is pretty forgettable and will not be one that I would enjoy revisiting down the road.
