Larry Gopnik is a troubled man, he made it his profession to derive the reasons for why things occur and happen, and to make sense of them using the very logical form of mathematics. While he tries to decode the world around him using this basis of understanding and living his life as he believes to be in the form of a good man, the world around him is nothing but infinite chaos. I believe that this is an illustration of the chaos in which we choose to ignore in our everyday lives and the Coen brothers telling us to accept the chaos for what it is while still trying to live a good and happy life.
Again and again A Serious Man poses the question of “Why?” “Why him?” “Why does his wife treat him the way that she does?” “Why is his student blackmailing
Again and again A Serious Man poses the question of “Why?” “Why him?” “Why does his wife treat him the way that she does?” “Why is his student blackmailing