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How A Real Pain took Jesse Eisenberg on a road trip to his psyche’s ‘ground zero’

JL;DR SUMMARY Jesse Eisenberg's new film, "A Real Pain," serves as both a comedic and serious exploration of Jewish identity and historical trauma, featuring a narrative centered on cousins visiting their Holocaust-survivor grandmother's childhood home in Poland. 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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HolocaustJewish IdentityJewish HeritageJewish ExperienceJesse EisenbergA Real PainKieran CulkinDavid BaddielCultural ConnectionSurvivor's Guilt

Places mentioned

London, United Kingdom
"He is in London to promote his latest film A Real Pain."
New York, United States
"Baddiels intention was apparently to make a fellow Jewish writer feel at home while away from his native New York."
Krasnystaw, Lublin, Poland
"David and Ben find their Doriss house in Krasnystaw, it is the actual house in which Eisenbergs Doris spent the first few years of her life."
Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"The journey involves joining a small group on a Holocaust tour the climax to which is a visit Majdanek concentration camp which Eisenberg had previously visited in 2008."

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