Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A Serious Man
In the Coen brothers’ latest film, their sense of humor is ethnically Jewish. It is about a physics professor who is dealing with tenure, divorce, a dead beat brother, and his son’s bar mitzvah. The film accurately recreates 1967 suburbia complete with the Jefferson Airplane on the radio and F Troop on the TV. Alien wonders if some of the jokes were too ethnically and culturally based for mass appeal.
Alien gives it 2 "lost in translation" stars out of 4.
In the Coen brothers’ latest film, their sense of humor is ethnically Jewish. It is about a physics professor who is dealing with tenure, divorce, a dead beat brother, and his son’s bar mitzvah. The film accurately recreates 1967 suburbia complete with the Jefferson Airplane on the radio and F Troop on the TV. Alien wonders if some of the jokes were too ethnically and culturally based for mass appeal.
Alien gives it 2 "lost in translation" stars out of 4.
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