Over at Reel Spirituality, Part 2 of my work on the Wisdom Literature in Coen Brothers films is up. This time, the topic is the reflection of Job in A Serious Man.
If True Grit embodies Proverbs’ economy of just recompense, A Serious Man provides us with a modern-day Job story: the economy of Proverbs is taken up with all seriousness – but it is taken up within a world in which God does not repay the wicked with judgment or the righteous with reward. The presumption of the economy of just desserts creates the pathos that drives the narrative… read the rest
Larry is painfully passive with his family and the man next door. The Coens are like Flannery O’Connor “to the hard of hearing you shout to the almost blind you have to draw large startling figures.
No doubt, Bob.