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Finally, a Holocaust Movie That Trusts Us

JL;DR SUMMARY Jesse Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain" provides a refreshing take on Holocaust narratives by avoiding didactic tropes and instead focusing on personal and existential aches experienced by its protagonists, David and Benji, two cousins exploring their family's Holocaust heritage. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FamilyHolocaustJewish IdentityTraumaGriefMajdanekLegacyJesse EisenbergA Real PainJennifer Grey

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Lublin, Poland
"a Holocaust movie without any fucking lessons. Life is Beautiful this is not: its not even Schindlers List. Though there is a brief, intense, and appropriately silent excursion to the Majdanek (Lublin) extermination camp, most of the movies emotional gravitas comes from the far less industrialized pain the cousins both carry within themselves and inflict on each other."
Poland
"Life is Beautiful this is not: its not even Schindlers List. Though there is a brief, intense, and appropriately silent excursion to the Majdanek (Lublin) extermination camp, most of the movies emotional gravitas comes from the far less industrialized pain the cousins both carry within themselves and inflict on each other."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler is an LA-based writer and the co-editor of AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY (forthcoming May 2025)."

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