This movie opens with the quote "Receive everything with simplicity everything that happens to you" and perhaps that's how one should approach this movie. I mean, the movie is funny for the most part, but in some scenes it feels if the Coen brothers were trying too hard to be humorous. I also refuse to believe there's much subtext within the movie. Yeah it's a dark comedy about a married professor whose life is falling apart. Whatever. Maybe I had to be a Jew to enjoy it more.
