
A Serious Man
Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
A Serious Man: Can Life Be Understood?
What’s going on? Protagonist Larry Gopnik keeps asking this question in the Coen Brothers’ 2009 drama, A Serious Man. In this video essay, Nerdwriter1 takes a closer look at Larry’s character in order to unpack the existential dilemma posed by the film—Can life ever be truly understood?