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One of the weirdest flicks I've seen. The needle on the fun-o-meter didn't budge.

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In Reply to: RE: A Serious Man... posted by mkuller on March 01, 2010 at 13:17:09

All that humorless dysfunction wrapped around that one person who wouldn't defend himself. Ouch. All those self-created traumatic issues; such a dismal collection of "stuff", brought to a head at the end.
That ending made the film fall into place, but I had to sit there the whole time waiting for it. If a person gets disgusted and leaves early, then they'll miss it, and the whole deal fails.
I don't know about Best Picture, but there should be a category out there somewhere for it. Maybe in the back alley after the Oscars are given out. I think people will love to hate this movie.
The 60's were well captured in this.

Edits: 03/01/10

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The late 1960's were captured well... - mkuller 14:19:48 03/01/10 (2)
...except I don't think nice Jewish 13 year olds were smoking pot in 1967.

Unless they were in San Francisco for the Summer of Love...
- RE: The late 1960's were captured well... - geoff 15:56:46 03/01/10 (1)
  Actually, I knew quite a few.
  - And... - Harmonia 19:00:46 03/01/10 (0)
    ...nice Catholic boys 'n girls were smoking pot as well. Sometimes with our Jewish friends ;-)

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