According to the book of Job, Job refuses to believe that calamities happened to him because he deserved them. He further tells his friends that God punishes both the bad and the good. This may be somewhat true, but as humans we mostly conclude and relate situations to each other and then think that God has a hand in every good or bad thing that happens to us. I firmly believe that God is conscious but not responsible for everything that happens to us. There is no doubt that there is a God – a spiritual force that sees and can control what happens in life. Does he deliberately and actually allow things to happen to us or is it by chance? Or maybe he's actually doing it as punishment? This is the same situation Larry found himself in in the Coen brothers' film "A Serious Man" Coel & Ethan. Larry decides to find answers to why he was going through terrible situations all happening at the same time. First, let me analyze Larry's character and some of the situations surrounding him. Larry is a mensch – a Yiddish man who does what is right and was married to Judith who, without any hint, requested a get – a Jewish divorce document so she could marry Sy, his best friend. However, he was kicked out of his own home, as required by their religion. Larry had 2 difficult children, Danny who owed a classmate $20 for marijuana and Sarah who always messed up and washed his hair every time. Larry also had to deal with his brother Arthur who sleeps on the couch and spends most of his time in a notebook working on what he says is the map of the universe. Larry was a physics teacher and was under pressure after being expelled from school. After pointing out some of the situations Larry was going through and after careful consideration......middle of article......things happen to us because maybe they happen for a reason. Although it is unknown to us, I can understand Job's point and it is seen in the beginning (prologue) of the film about how God punishes us sometimes. Judging from the beginning of the movie, could it be that Larry Gopnik's family line was cursed because of what they did to Dibbuk (the man who came from the snow for shelter) and could this be why he was going through these situations? Perhaps, and this could symbolize God's punishment for the Gopnik family line through Larry's predicament. So things happen for a reason, even if it's not necessarily to us but to someone or something around us.BibliographyA serious man. Real. Joel and Ethan Coen. Michael Stuhlbaeg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, DVD. Focus images, 2009.