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JL;DR SUMMARY The film "A Real Pain," directed by Jesse Eisenberg, follows two American Jewish cousins, David and Benji, on a heritage trip to Poland post their grandmother's death. 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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Jewish HistoryHolocaustJewish IdentityPolandIntergenerational TraumaCultural HeritageCinemaJesse EisenbergPolish Jewish RelationsBuddy Movies

Places mentioned

Poland
"The film follows two cousins...who go on a heritage tour of Jewish Poland after the death of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"David has a wife, Priya, and young child, Abe, in Brooklyn, while Benji, unemployed and uncoupled, smokes too much weed and cannot cope with the pain of everyday life."
Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"...and Majdanek, where it was brutally and systematically extinguished."
Krasnik, Lublin, Poland
"David oversleeps on a train and the cousins end up in Krasnik by mistake."
Lublin, Poland
"If its Tuesday, this must be Lublin."
Canada
"Eloge converted to Judaism after feeling a kinship with the Jewish community who helped him when he made it to Canada."
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"In reality, Poles now dress up as Jews with fake payos to serve soup to tourists in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Krakow."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"And I myself loved my time (and even felt at home) in Munich, where my mother was born after the war."
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