started watching menashe on max but i was too high to finish it but im liking it a lot so far. iād say im like 50% through? i know itās some years old now but has anyone else seen it? what were ur thoughts?
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started watching menashe on max but i was too high to finish it but im liking it a lot so far. iād say im like 50% through? i know itās some years old now but has anyone else seen it? what were ur thoughts?

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Menashe (2017) dir. Joshua Z. Weinstein
Menashe, Argus, and Grant. Just a guy and his 2 talking objects. (Click for full resolution)
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Menashe
While my full opinion is more detailed, Iām sorry to report that overall the movie Menashe was an incredibly uncomfortable hot mess of a disappointment. š
So some background on the film: while itās based (to exactly what degree I donāt know) on the life of the main actor and almost all the actors (except the little boy) are chasidish in real life, the director and co-writers are 2 secular Jews and a non-Jew - in other words, outsiders to the world theyāre portraying.
This had the potential to be a FANTASTIC collaboration: the filmmakers could have used their knowledge and skill, combined with the lived experience of the actors, to show their (mostly outsider) audience a picture of a different world that is complex, multifaceted, flawed, but also beautiful (you know, like basically every other human society). They could have used this film to humanize the individuals and society they were portraying to a demographic that largely views it as alien and inscrutable.
But instead, they created a cast of characters that is universally unsympathetic (most of them are blatantly terrible people, and even the one weāre supposed to like, the protagonist, at one point hits his child and doesnāt really seem to show any remorse; the child is as close as it comes to sympathetic, except there is zero emotional development and his actions lack any understandable motivation). They portrayed a two-dimensional world that confirms every possible negative stereotype an outsider audience member could possibly have about Orthodox Jews: no one ever really seems happy (ESPECIALLY the women, all of whom look miserable, and multiple of whom verbally express being so), religion when explicitly addressed (and not just in the background of a scene) is always used as a tool of coercion, marriages are forced and unhappy, negative things that are NOT mainstream are portrayed as such (e.g. women not driving) and mentioned apropos of nothing (literally nothing to do with the plot, basically just used as āworld buildingā so to speak).
And perhaps the worst thing is that the chasidish actorsā involvement legitimizes the marketing of this film as a āglimpse into the chasidic world.ā (I have a lot of thoughts as to why they were ok with participating in this story as it was told, but theyāll have to be saved for another time since Iām on mobile.)
Iām disgusted that this film as it was executed is being shown to mainstream audiences. It had so much potential, and it was completely botched. Someone get Rama Burshtein in to do a remake?
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