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shadowkatI'm trying to watch A Serious Man (Superbowl? What Superbowl? There's a Superbowl on?) and it's putting me to sleep, which I guess is a good thing - since have to go there soon anyhow, having to get up at 6am and all that. Oh look, it's Howard from The Big Bang Theory playing an insightful Rabbi - providing marital advice.
Also apparently there's a Jewish version of a Catholic annulment, called a "ghet", personally I think both are absurd. Call it what it is - a divorce and be done with it.
I think it takes place in either the early 1960s or 1950s. Feels like the 1950s. Also it's reminding me a lot of Breaking Bad, except without the cancer, drugs and violence. So if you want to watch a movie about the disenfranchized American male, this time Jewish, without all that - go rent this movie.
Like most of the Coehn Brothers comedies - it's a satire or send-up of culture. This round Jewish culture. Which I think works better if you understand what they are making fun of and the time period they are sending up. Since, I'm unfamiliar with both - there's a distance between me and the material that makes it difficult for it to hold my attention or pull me in. It is well shot and with an attention to detail like most of their films. But since I don't care about any of the characters I can't quite get pulled into it.
Wait...someone important just died. Whoa.
Hmmm...maybe I should stop this and watch it another night when I'm less sleepy?
Also apparently there's a Jewish version of a Catholic annulment, called a "ghet", personally I think both are absurd. Call it what it is - a divorce and be done with it.
I think it takes place in either the early 1960s or 1950s. Feels like the 1950s. Also it's reminding me a lot of Breaking Bad, except without the cancer, drugs and violence. So if you want to watch a movie about the disenfranchized American male, this time Jewish, without all that - go rent this movie.
Like most of the Coehn Brothers comedies - it's a satire or send-up of culture. This round Jewish culture. Which I think works better if you understand what they are making fun of and the time period they are sending up. Since, I'm unfamiliar with both - there's a distance between me and the material that makes it difficult for it to hold my attention or pull me in. It is well shot and with an attention to detail like most of their films. But since I don't care about any of the characters I can't quite get pulled into it.
Wait...someone important just died. Whoa.
Hmmm...maybe I should stop this and watch it another night when I'm less sleepy?
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Date: 2011-02-08 02:00 am (UTC)The ghet makes a lot more sense, particularly when you look at it within the context of history. Apparently the ghet came about in a time period where women really had no rights or refuge - and were literally at the mercy of men. So it was a protective device. They leave their families home and are placed under the protective care of their husband - who is responsible for "providing" for them. The ghet basically frees him of responsibility for their care.
In Catholicism - the annulement is a bit different. Because it's not about "responsibility for the woman's care" or "division of property" so much as it is about the formal and spiritual dissolution of a marriage that should never have taken place.
Annulement's can happen if for example two 18 year olds get married and realize five months later they screwed up. The view is the people were either too young or not mentally competent to make the choice. (ie. they were drunk and got married in Vegas). Having sex - does not prohibit an annulement - being drunk when you got married is enough. All you have to prove is you weren't capable of making a fully informed choice.
And divorce is a legal separation - that is mainly concerned with the division of property.