A Serious Man, Seriously
For TC (and others) who didn’t understand ‘A Serious Man.’ They are not always detectives, but the main characters in Coen Brothers movies resemble Raymond Chandler’s remark about his own main character:
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honour – by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
