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We shouldn’t have to pay for train tickets in Poland
Plot
Mismatched cousins reunite for a drive through Poland to pay their last respects to their beloved grandmother, but against the backdrop of their family history, old tensions resurface. When Benji and David visit their grandmother’s house in Poland, this is the place where Jesse Eisenberg’s real-life ancestors settled in the diaspora.Benji Kaplan: We keep moving, we keep light, we keep agile.David Kaplan: Yes.Benji Kaplan: The conductor will be right over and take the tickets. We tell him we’re going to the bathroom.David Kaplan: Bathroom.Benji Kaplan: He gets to the back of the train and goes to the front to check for stragglers.David Kaplan: Sorry, we’re the stragglers?Benji Kaplan: Yes. By the time he gets to the front, the train is already in the station and we’ve made it.David Kaplan: This is so damn stupid. Tickets probably cost about twelve dollars.Benji Kaplan: It’s a matter of principle.
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This is our country.David Kaplan: No, it’s not, it was our country. They kicked us out because they thought we were stingy.. 12 Etudes, Op. 25, No. 3 in F majorWritten by Frederic ChopinPerformed by Tzvi Erez.
This buddy film is a study of two different characters and their relationship to each other and to their Jewish history
“We keep moving, we keep light, we keep agile.” Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin)A Real Pain may be a comedy, deftly crafted by writer/director Jesse Eisenberg, but it’s also a serious drama about the differences between two Jewish cousins traveling through Poland in honor of their recently deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. David (Eisenberg) is John Milton’s Il Penseroso and Benji is his L’Allegro, two opposites, the former marked by melancholy and the latter by hilarity. David is the grounded, nerdy, thoughtful guy and Benji (Kieran Culkin) is the wacky chatterbox whose pleasures are nevertheless worth pondering. His advice (above) to David to keep his cool while they don’t have to pay for their train ticket is a combination of David’s careful thinking and Benji’s chutzpah. Benji is less a bipolar weirdo and more a funny, smart kid who’s too smart to say stupid things and too immature to hold back.
Writer-director Eisenberg never lets either character draw our criticism
The film’s sympathetic soul is in his character, who connects with the other Holocaust tourists in an inspired way that makes them remember him. Yet while touring a concentration camp, barely a word is spoken: as if the history of genocide is too heavy for words. Only Benji’s words, advising the guide, the non-Jewish James (Will Sharpe), to find the true emotions in the statistics he presents, make a difference. Although Benji can be opinionated, he finds favor with the sympathetic Rwandan Eloge (Kurt Egyiawan), a convert to Judaism, and the melancholy middle-aged Marcia (Jennifer Gray), who is waiting to be released from her grief over her divorce. Despite Benji’s recent heavy dark moment, David worries about his rootless, charismatic cousin.
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The director gently shows the complexity of human personality and the differences between family members, regardless of the circumstances.More than a balanced portrayal of two very different relatives, A Real Pain shows the emotional benefits of L’Allegro and the grounded reality of Il Penseroso. They are, after all, blood relatives, almost brothers, who are very different but suffer from the history of the Holocaust and their grandmother, just like the rest of us trying to understand the horror and joy of life. It’s a buddy movie, but it’s about words, not actions like in Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid.This light comedy-drama should be a heavyweight Oscar contender.
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