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lioryaakov · 5 days ago

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Yeah this can go on the Jumblr blog too because for some reason this film woke up something deep in my neshama even though I can't say it was the "best" movie I've seen this year (although it is very good) it is the one that stuck with me the most. For some reason I came out of it really wanting to start studying The Talmud again and I don't know why because the main characters in the film aren't super observant and it only came up once lol.

I saw A Real Pain recently. Really beautiful, really healing, and very, very Jewish in the best way. I highly recommend but I don't know how it will hit for everyone, though I don't think you have to be Jewish for the themes of generational trauma and difficulty reconciling the enormity of the world's grief with the legitimacy or complexity of your own personal pain in the face of that is only a Jewish thing. So I think it'll hit for other people but I appreciated it was also very by the Jews for the Jews in a way that despite the stereotype about us CoNtRoLlInG tHe MeDiA is actually very rare.

#I also really liked the diversity of Jewish experience in the film #I liked that the convert character was not the subject of jokes and was treated just as Jewish as anyone else #and he and Jesse Eisenberg have this conversation about observance and Shabbat that feels like a conversation I could have and had have eve #though the dialogue is a bit quippier in the way you'd expect from an Eisenberg movie #but not so much that it is distracting #A Real Pain #and obviously trigger warning for #holocaust mention cw #it's a film about the grandchildren of a Holocaust survivor so obviously trigger warning for discussions of intergenerational trauma #but there is nothing exploitative or graphic on the screen #though that can be more haunting

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