http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/02/22/accept-the-mystery/ Cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. -- Alfred Hitchcock Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/02/22/accept-the-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Dwight Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:43:41 +0000 http://www.thefilmcake.com/?p=862#comment-575 Yeah, I like that. I like the three different spheres that the story can encompass. In Job's sphere--God is most certainly present. In Larry Gopnik's sphere--God may or may not be present, but the religious culture and tradition surely are. In my (as one viewer) sphere--God is not present. All three spheres approach differently the question of why bad things happen. The Coens' allow the viewer to interpret. "Accept the mystery" can mean many different things--one thing to Job, another thing to Larry, and something else to me (...and something different for you). Yeah, I like that. I like the three different spheres that the story can encompass. In Job’s sphere–God is most certainly present. In Larry Gopnik’s sphere–God may or may not be present, but the religious culture and tradition surely are. In my (as one viewer) sphere–God is not present. All three spheres approach differently the question of why bad things happen. The Coens’ allow the viewer to interpret. “Accept the mystery” can mean many different things–one thing to Job, another thing to Larry, and something else to me (…and something different for you).

]]> http://www.thefilmcake.com/2010/02/22/accept-the-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-573 GraceKathryn Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:27:31 +0000 http://www.thefilmcake.com/?p=862#comment-573 I LOVED <i>A Serious Man</i>. It was a brilliant re-telling of the book of Job (as A.O. Scott points out), even down to the cyclone at the end. I LOVED A Serious Man. It was a brilliant re-telling of the book of Job (as A.O. Scott points out), even down to the cyclone at the end.

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