Seriously? A Serious Man

Movie trailers are clever and sometimes misleading. The one for A Serious Man, thank you Coen Bros., is annoying yet provocative. So we saw the movie. I couldn't figure it out until the next morning. Hubby didn't care for it. And I felt it had some chuckles with some side swipes at Jewish behavior. I liked the homage to Mrs. Robinson.
At first view, I kept thinking it was a lesson in not standing up for oneself, not paying attention to one's wife or kids, and keeping faith in some quirky movie directors. But that was not it at all.
That movie is about how we spend our time worrying, dithering, solving, swearing, working, wasting time until something much bigger comes along and shakes us up a whole bunch.
I equated it to the whole global warming crowd. My personal opinion of global warming is it's something that happens in the universe. The sun is mostly responsible and then a whole bunch of other factors. Hubby thinks humans have somehow contributed to the fact, but I think our part is so infinitesimal as to not even matter. After watching shows about ice ages, I seem to feel happy we have warming. 7 miles of ice surrounding the earth is not a happy thought. But anyway, let's get back to the crowd that thinks humans need to stop the economy, make incandescent light bulbs illegal, make solar power the answer to energy, and we must paint all the roofs in the world white...those people. They want all of us to solve, manipulate, change and stand on our heads and scream like a chicken....not really for the last one, in order to tame climate change. Well, we can't. And if we do make all these changes to satisfy this crowd, it won't matter except that jobs will be lost, and we'll stay in a deep recession for many years. Well that's my opinion, but back to the movie...in A Serious Man, after many issues were resolved, skirted, played with, manipulated and finally resolved, Mother Nature took her course. I will not say how this movie ended for those of you who haven't seen it. But the next morning after watching it, this is what came into my head as it's explanation: It is the perfect analogy of the global warming crowd. They will keep us busy doing other things until Mother Nature makes a stand. The End.