First off this is a love or hate it movie. Want Optimism? Action? Dick-Jokes? Plot? Happy Ending? All the answers given? Don't Waste your time For me and some others (and certainly not enough as I'd like) This film is Brilliant. A Masterpiece. The Coen Brothers Best. It's about the meaning of life, it's about the big things 'What it's all about' and the little things that fill it up like Marijuana and teeth.
It has offered me new rewards on repeated viewings. I saw it three times at the cinema and liked it more each time. So multi-layered is this film, it takes me a long time before I can watch something else.
Every scene contains the duality. The money problems. The dynamic between Larry and his son along with Larry and his wife, is balanced with the two neighbors.
The film can be viewed from a religious perspective and an atheist one as to why things are the way they are. Oh, how like the world we live in. I think the Coen Brothers aren't just testing Larry they're testing the audience. If you can't accept the mystery (we never find out if Larry or his son will die) then you might find yourself unable to escape your problems. If it depresses you and you can't just laugh it off, change.
Michael Stuhlbarg (who is OUTSTADNING) plays a modern Job, or just another human being (remember my perspective comment?) He remains admirably optimistic and warm but we shake our heads at him, for not doing anything.
Sy Ableman the man who takes Larries wife, might be the devil. Larry does not stand up to him so the devil takes over. And god might be the one who strikes Sy down for sinning, or it just happened without any religious meaning because religions a lie....talk about perspective. Sy is in Dynamic with the Dybbuk at the beginning way back when in Poland and the curse does/does not get put upon a simple couple and may have gone on all the Jews, Sy Ablemans dead body wasn't watched over when he dies so Larries dreams are haunted. My older brother said a Jewish mans curse is his wife. The wife stabs the Dybbuk and Larries wife pushes him to the rabbis that give the carefully watching audience perspective and Larry none. Larry can't see the joy in the parking lot. Larry wants the answer to what happened to the Goy. Larry can't see that Marshak wants him to figure it himself.....I'm always asking myself if another film has ever made me think this way...no it hasn't.
And the ending once again. The phone call Larry gets about his health right after making the choice on the grade, the same action happens before his wife decides to divorce him. And his son Danny begins with trying to deal with the money problem, the radio is taken, the journey starts, it ends with him trying to deal with it but realizes it does not matter, he'll probably die. And if he keeps living or dies no answer will be given, so the answer to Larry and his sons fate has no purpose. No answer will be their, so we need to laugh and enjoy the journey instead of focusing on the end.
This film finally has crashed my top 20 movies taking it's place at Number One (Seriously). It ends where it begins and I could talk about it all day, of all the intertwining layers that this film has and we should be grateful exists, like all good things. That includes the parking lot.
It has offered me new rewards on repeated viewings. I saw it three times at the cinema and liked it more each time. So multi-layered is this film, it takes me a long time before I can watch something else.
Every scene contains the duality. The money problems. The dynamic between Larry and his son along with Larry and his wife, is balanced with the two neighbors.
The film can be viewed from a religious perspective and an atheist one as to why things are the way they are. Oh, how like the world we live in. I think the Coen Brothers aren't just testing Larry they're testing the audience. If you can't accept the mystery (we never find out if Larry or his son will die) then you might find yourself unable to escape your problems. If it depresses you and you can't just laugh it off, change.
Michael Stuhlbarg (who is OUTSTADNING) plays a modern Job, or just another human being (remember my perspective comment?) He remains admirably optimistic and warm but we shake our heads at him, for not doing anything.
Sy Ableman the man who takes Larries wife, might be the devil. Larry does not stand up to him so the devil takes over. And god might be the one who strikes Sy down for sinning, or it just happened without any religious meaning because religions a lie....talk about perspective. Sy is in Dynamic with the Dybbuk at the beginning way back when in Poland and the curse does/does not get put upon a simple couple and may have gone on all the Jews, Sy Ablemans dead body wasn't watched over when he dies so Larries dreams are haunted. My older brother said a Jewish mans curse is his wife. The wife stabs the Dybbuk and Larries wife pushes him to the rabbis that give the carefully watching audience perspective and Larry none. Larry can't see the joy in the parking lot. Larry wants the answer to what happened to the Goy. Larry can't see that Marshak wants him to figure it himself.....I'm always asking myself if another film has ever made me think this way...no it hasn't.
And the ending once again. The phone call Larry gets about his health right after making the choice on the grade, the same action happens before his wife decides to divorce him. And his son Danny begins with trying to deal with the money problem, the radio is taken, the journey starts, it ends with him trying to deal with it but realizes it does not matter, he'll probably die. And if he keeps living or dies no answer will be given, so the answer to Larry and his sons fate has no purpose. No answer will be their, so we need to laugh and enjoy the journey instead of focusing on the end.
This film finally has crashed my top 20 movies taking it's place at Number One (Seriously). It ends where it begins and I could talk about it all day, of all the intertwining layers that this film has and we should be grateful exists, like all good things. That includes the parking lot.