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Finding Meaning In "A Real Pain"

JL;DR SUMMARY "A Real Pain," written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, follows Jewish American cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) on a poignant trip to Poland to explore their Holocaust-survivor grandmother's past. 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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IdentityHolocaustJewish HeritageFamily DynamicsConnectionGenerational TraumaLonelinessTravelJesse EisenbergKieran Culkin

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"cousins from New York, one uptight and the other free-spirited"
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"front of the Warsaw Uprising Memorial."
Jerusalem, Israel
"At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, a statue honoring the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"visit to Auschwitz. Two older couples who lost relatives there recited prayers"
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