A Jewish physicist watches his life fall apart in the month leading up to his son’s Bar Mitzvah. His wife decides to divorce him for his best friend, his brother is arrested, his neighbor wants an affair with him, and no one respects him.
The movie has recently been nominated for best picture and has the distinct Coen brother’s touch of feeling extremely real while offering characters so absurd that they have to be based on someone. You feel very sorry for Larry and bemoan the situation in his life that is completely beyond his power to control.
Like Fargo, I just didn’t get most of this movie. This was another not a comedy. I laughed a couple of times but it was nothing like Oh Brother Where Art Thou or Raising Arizona. It was actually pretty depressing to watch this guy’s life sink lower and lower as he desperately claws at the mud to try and get out. You become completely emotionally invested it what’s going on and for that the movie spits in your eye. There is no conclusion. There seems to be some kind deus ex machina that makes everything better but you don’t get to see it. Things just become better. Not only that, but the ending doesn’t make any sense. At all. I’m just a lay man in the world of film symbolism but it was just stupid. For that matter, so was the very beginning. It takes place back in either Poland or Russia and, to the best of my knowledge, had nothing to do with the rest of the story.
D. I definitely count this movie as an incredible waste of time and money, both on our end of the screen and there’s. I might be on the opposite end of most film critics but I’m fine with that.
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