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A Serious Man 2009
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Divorce is a process. Unless you are unusually adept at navigating difficult life changes, you'll inevitably find yourself in various uncomfortable moments, like your wife's boyfriend's shiva. The Coens use the divorce and various comically-unfortunate circumstances, like blackmail and shitty kids, to explore how a man is unable to turn to his faith for comfort and guidance. The advice the rabbis give him are empty words. The future of the relationship between Gopnik and his wife is…
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
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~Ghost Dog~ highlights how ridiculous the samurai code is in a modern context. Like most samurai movies, we sympathize with him as he murders scores of enemies, with every plan going swimmingly and every bystander unaffected by his actions, such as when he steals a family's license plates and they just magically don't turn around and protest, in which case they'd be killed. His adherence to his code and voluntarily staying a retainer of a self-serving gangster makes the ending…
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