To say the trailer for the new Coen brothers movie A Serious Man was a real headbanger would be true ... but perhaps a bit misleading. In this beautifully choreographed teaser, the banging of the protagonist's head literally provides the beat for the scenes that follow.
A Serious Man is set in 1967 Minneapolis and stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a physics professor at a small university whose life is (comically) coming apart at the seams. His wife is leaving, his unemployable brother is sleeping on the couch, and his daughter is stealing to save up for a nose job. And that's just for starters.
The larger theme, according to the official summary, is "an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV." From what we see here, the world isn't cooperating much with his quest.