A Serious Man (2009)

Yelena Shmulenson: Shtetl Wife

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Quotes 

• Dybbuk? : I shaved hastily this morning and missed a bit-by you this makes me a dybbuk? It's true, I was sick with typhus when I stayed with Peselle, but I recovered, as you can plainly see, and now I-hugh!

  [She stabs him in the chest with an ice pick] 

  Dybbuk? : What a wife you have!

  Shtetl Husband : Woman, what have you done?

  Dybbuk? : Why would she do such a thing? I ask you, Velvel, as a rational man: which of us is possessed?

  Shtetl Wife : What do you say now about spirits? He is unharmed!

  Dybbuk? : On the contrary! I don't feel at all well.

  [Blood begins to seep from his chest] 

  Dybbuk? : One does a mitzvah and this is the thanks one gets?

  Shtetl Husband : Dora! Woe, woe! How can such a thing be!

  Dybbuk? : Perhaps I will have some soup. I am feeling weak. Or perhaps I should go. One knows when one isn't wanted.

  Shtetl Husband : Dear wife. We are ruined. Tomorrow they will discover the body. All is lost.

  Shtetl Wife : Nonsense, Velvel. Blessed is the Lord. Good riddance to evil.