A serious man

According to mythology, the hero Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to make a futile and hopeless labor for life. Live without expectations, without ambitions for the future. But to get carried away by the melancholy of an absurdity that does not free is to live like Sisyphus in misfortune day to day.

For Camus, absurdity is something inexplicable, is something that takes man's account and that becomes part of his life and he does not even notice. Live a life where everything is hopeless and useless, like Sisyphus is condemned to repeat the same effort every day, it is the greatest proof of the absurd.

It would be a way to exit this monotony of life man, suicide, thus seeking freedom? Through suicide man would arrive at a false hope to get away with nonsense. Find that life does not deserve to be lived and let corrupt themselves by the absurdity of illusions, is the way in which man begins to be consumed by suicide.

His absurdity emphases the idea that there is not rational foundation to moral orders but we should not despair. He defends that we should entertain death instead of suicide, Life may be absurd however there is no need to feel an urgency for death or despair.

A Serious Man is a film about the search for meaning, and in that search we find no meaning at all. The film applies Camus’s philosophy. What happens when science and religion fails as an explanation or comfort instruments for a common man immersed in a series of misfortunes? How do science and religion fail when trying to account for the presence of evil in everyday life? These are the central themes of intriguing and provocative film from the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man".

The film's protagonist, Larry Gopnik is a decent man. But it is also an uncertain man. He wants to be "a serious man" but seems unable to find the necessary spiritual certainty. The more he seeks this certainty, more elusive it becomes, creating a series of tragicomic situations.

Larry is a professor of physics that after receiving a bribe of a disgruntled student that was failed in a test finds that his unhappy wife makes plans to leave him. In addition, there is an anonymous letter threatening his career at the university. Larry also has to deal with the problems of Arthur, his brother, who lives in your home and sleeps on the couch; his son Danny, troublesome and rebellious; and still Sarah, his daughter, who constantly takes money from his wallet for a future plastic surgery on the nose. Without knowing what to do, Larry seeks advice from three rabbis.

I think Professor Gopnik can be an absurdist character. He finds his life framed by the prospect of death and thus he searches for meaning but finds none. It was only when Sisyphus accepted and forgot his fate that he could be content to keep on pushing the rock, and perhaps it is only when Gopnik accepts and forgets the mysteries of his life that he can be content to keep on. If he accepts the mystery, even, he might become happy to do this, like Sisyphus must be understood to be content to keep rolling his stone uphill.