A Serious Man

Larry Gopnik is the most pathetic protagonist i've seen. He is so passive it physically hurts to watch.

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That's kind of the point. A "nice guy" who thinks that just by being polite and listening to the rules he will have a good life.

if you're the type of person who can't detach himself from flawed or repulsive protagonists, A Serious Man is too sophisticated for you

Jewkino

Zoomers are incapable of doing this since they were raised on video games and identifying themselves with the protagonist, it's cognitively impossible for them

this is definitely not an exclusively zoomer problem. even disregarding millennials, the epidemic of the "hollywood ending" in gen x movies (especially the adaptations) used to be absolutely unbearable, one awful trend that seems to have abated a bit

yeah that's the point

"I HAVENT DONE ANYTHING!"
"That's why you're receiving..."

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thats the entire point you stupid zoomer faggot

Those seem more like narrative cliches that came out of a lack of creativity and risk taking where the Zoomer Problem is more of a generational cognitive epidemic

Zoomer babies have never read The Trial or The Stranger

so life is just never ending suffering?

Be a serious mensch

Have you seen The Double? The protagonist is pretty beta too

No, life is about doing things, not living in constant passive sheep conformity.

When the truth is found to be lies

and all the joy within you dies

dont you want somebody to love?

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what about the beginning with the ghost-thing, what does it mean?

do zoomers even play story mode? I thought they just played battle royale and minecraft

but you get bad things even if you do something.

accept the mystery

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Ofcourse, so you do more things. Experiencing bad things and just staying passive only leaves you in the bad thing.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy

Who provides food for the raven
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food

Which deals better with the story of Job?

This or Tree of Life?

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seems like absurdism but i guess that's life for you.

>"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering." - Wayne Gretzky. - MICHAEL SCOTT

based and schopenhauerpilled

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this movie is a masterpiece, coens magnum opus imho. there are just so many subtleties to it

So was he really being punished for transgressing at the end? Or was it all just absurd coincidence?

Huh, never thought about it like that before. Popular games today don't even have protagonists anymore so I guess that won't be a problem for long

Could be that his ancestor invited an evil spirit into their home and so he is cursed

This one didn't resonate with me at all. Must be a Jew thing I don't get.

A jew girl at work was talking about a get and I knew what a get was because of this film

A get?

why it's a bad thing not being able to detach?

i think he means the funeral

Did you put her in an oven?

It's not a comeuppance imo
it's a confrontation with death- confrontation is what he's avoided the whole story and the conclusion is him being forced to change

The kid is scared of the bully because the bully is going to "kill" him. The only time we see the bully's face is at the very end with the tornado behind him.
So the kid also confronts death at the end sorta

alright labcoats, enough of this philosopho mumbo jumbo, post some fuckin khazar milkers

more like confronts his shadow

It means you can't examine the writing as well.
>"That's stupid- I would have done this-"
If you're more detached you can think about the character doing things that make sense for the character.

So the asian guy is supposed to be a Dybbuk right?
A malicious spirit that won't go away until it is helped- and helping it kinda ruins your life.

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>"That's stupid- I would have done this-"
A friend of mine, who's 29, does this constantly. It's as if he doesn't understand that people in movies can make different decisions from himself or bad ones to drive the plot forward. I've met other people who don't understand when characters are lying.
>but he said something different earlier

Do that kind of people really exist? I've never met one.

Yeah and my friend isn't necessarily a retard either. He works as an engineer designing helicopters for Boeing. Some people can't enjoy a movie without putting themselves into the role.

just sounds like autism desu chan

William Stoner is the most pathetic protagonist i've seen on paper. He is so passive it physically hurts to read.

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Larry, look what Hashem did!

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>khazar milkers
>jews are stereotypically weak and fragile

jew broads have big noses and big tits

The dentist trying to figure it out why "save me, help me" is put there by God and never once thinking the most simple answer to help the goy (while the music goes on and on - and he goes to the zohar and the numeric kabbalah and never thinks of helping the goy) is the funniest shit in the world

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only the males, judaism is a matriarchal religion

so that's why they're all neurotic?

you know the funniest part about visiting israel is everyone looks like they are a cast member in this movie.
it made me giggle

Eternal struggle is eternal growth.
You'll never have an appreciation for life if you never face a hardship and overcome it.
It truly is hard to accept, but you have to.

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but once you overcome something, even bigger hardship comes into the picture.

The entire movie is about uncertainty, for god sakes the main character teaches the uncertainty principle in his classes. Almost every plot point is crafted to make you not sure.

yeah but he got to have a year long passionate affair with his hot literature student so who's really the loser

so basically life is uncertainty

HAHAHA SUCK IT LOSERS

Lomax

NO YOU'RE RIGHT ACTUALLY THERE IS ABSOLUTELY ZERO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEVELOPING ONESELF AS A HUMAN BEING AND JUST CONSUMING THE ARTWORK OF OTHERS WHO SOMEHOW MANAGED TO MAKE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
WHATEVER THE TRUTH IS, YOU'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE. ALL LIFE IS SUFFERING (EXCEPT EATING HOT CHEETOS YUM YUM)

Right, our dumb monkey brains like patterns, even if they're arn't any, In movies B happens because of A, in reality B=x. What is x? good fucking luck figuring that out.

Easy there mr. trips

He's supposed to be limp and pathetic. He's the american everyman. He's you, me, him, that guy over there.

We all feel disgust when personal failings that we are trying to overcome are represented in a singular character oin the screen or in real life

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but its not that he tries and fails but rather fails and does nothing.

it's a divorce document
only men can initiate divorce by giving the wife a get but if you hit your wife or something her relatives will come kneecap you if you refuse to give her one

A Serious Man is essentially the prequel to Falling Down. It's about a man who is beaten down over and over again by existence as well as a result of his own complacency and poor decisions.

It's a fantastic film.

>SO BASICALLY
>SO BASICALLY
>SO BASICALLY
THAT'S RIGHT DUDE FROM ALL THE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING AND DYING COLLECTING WISDOM AND BUILDING ON EACH OTHER'S SUCCESS YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S FIGURED OUT THAT ALL WE SHOULD DO IS SIT ON THE COUCH YOU DIDN'T BUILD AND MASTURBATE TO PORN YOU DIDN'T MAKE.
NEVERMIND IT TOOK THE COOPERATION AND INGENUITY OF MASSES OF PEOPLE FOR YOU TO REACH THAT LEVEL OF CONVENIENCE.
READ PHILOSOPHY AND GO RUNNING.
People exist who are smarter than you who have written it down. Read philosophy.

obviously this would extend to boomers and movies.

Is this the jewishest movie of all time?

Every creative act has its destructive consequences.

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>do nothing
>suffer

vs.

>do something
>suffer (but at least you did something)

i know what a get is from watching Buddy Hackett appearances on Carson. it's a divorce btw

The fuck are you even talking about? uncertainty doesn't mean devoid of meaning.

That's basically textbook aspergers, user.

i think it's something to do with money. think i heard it on sopranos

Everything has cause and effect

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he's the american everyman

since when everyman is passive?

how does he fail? He doesn't understand what's going on.

In statistical language the "everyman" is the mode. Most of my fellow Americans are certifiable fools hooked on TV, capeshit, shopping malls, pop music and the mothers-teet of junk food and booze

90iq zoomba

Cuck Larry
Chad Sy Ableman

>tfw I realized Larry talking about the uncertainty principal directly relates to pic related and the whole bribery situation

I'm full-ass Ashkenazi Jewish and basically all of the women in my extended family have D-cup tits or bigger. It's a real thing.

>Ableman
kek

post proofs, nosebro

since.......the 1960's. its not frontier time anymore. america is lethargic and flabby