Friday, April 4, 2008
The Believer
Ryan Gosling is a Jewish neo-Nazi. He's, shall we say, conflicted. It's like a well executed, serious version of the Dave Chappelle skit about Clayton Bigsby, aka the Black White Supremacist. As the film goes on, Gosling's angst increases, as if he were just waiting for someone like Dr. Tobias Funke to talk to him man-on-man and tell him, "I think you hate White Power Bill." The film wrestles with universal themes of acceptance, regret, pride, and growing up that should resonate with people, even if they're neither fascist nor Jewish. I like Gosling ("Fracture," "Half Nelson"), and I'd like to preserve that opinion of him, so I plan to refrain from ever seeing "The Notebook."
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Better review below in my opinion
"The Believer is a 2001 film written by Henry Bean and Mark Jacobson, and directed by Bean. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, an Orthodox Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi, and was inspired by the true story of Daniel Burros.[1] It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
The film follows the story of Daniel Balint, a once brilliant but troublesome student at an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva who has become a fanatically violent Neo-Nazi in New York by his early 20s. The film plots his rise through the ranks of a fictional American Neo-Nazi party while he attempts to reconcile his religious past with the anti-Jewish side of his identity. Through the rest of the film we witness the inner struggle of Danny's contradictions, leading into an existential climax. The film is deeply infused with religious symbolism and references to Nietzsche and Sartre."
From wikipedia
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