Just trying to cope with the BBC news headlines these days.

1. Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan.
2. US officials are investigating whether the crash, involving a plane piloted by Joseph Andrew Stack, was a deliberate attack on a tax office.
3. Portugal rushes aid to Madeira after deadly floods.
4. China anger at Dalai Lama-Obama meeting.
5. Russian ex-police boss gets life for supermarket murder.
6. Brothel remark Irish defence minister O'Dea resigns.
7. Far-right Czech Workers' Party to challenge court ban.
8. No Kenya crisis, says President Mwai Kibaki.
9. Women at war: How roles are changing.
10. Thousands rally in support of Niger coup.
11. ICC: Guinea killings 'crime against humanity'.
12. Rwandan capital Kigali hit by deadly grenade attacks.
13. Several dead in Ivory Coast clashes.

A Serious Man [2009]

Here's a film where

[...] the Coens compare humanity’s relationship-to-God to a rooftop antenna: just as the Gopniks can’t get F Troop to come through clearly, so too is humanity receiving a garbled signal they can’t decipher. Why does God supply us with the potential to ask questions when he won’t give us any answers? Why is he penalizing us when we haven’t done anything wrong? (The Coens find a brilliant symbol for this in the Columbia Record Club, which keeps charging you for albums precisely because you haven’t done anything.) The brothers cloak their bleak theology in the cover of comedy, but the pain and injustice of a world in which God only takes and does not give—in which he punishes the seemingly unoffending—is clear and deep.

Or at least that's the Cinepinion review, here.
It's been a film to keep me eyes wide open despite the Friday night tiredness, and that in itself is a mighty important merit.