Posts
since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” is a new American comedy film. It tells the story of Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler), the IDF’s Number 1 counter-terrorism killing machine who has simply grown tired of his military murderous engagement. At a certain stage, he fakes his own death while in action in order to pursue his real dream: that of becoming a hairstylist in NYC.
The film was anything but praised by the critics. The Sun gave the film one star and wrote: “the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine isn’t exactly the obvious choice of topic for a comedy – which is perhaps why this film is about as funny as a suicide bombing.” “By the end,” wrote Christopher Tookey of the Daily Mail, “I felt as though I had been carpet-bombed by comedy’s answer to Vladimir Putin. But, on second thought, Putin is funnier.”
These are pretty harsh words for critics to write about a film. However, unlike the devastated critic, who didn’t hold back from putting the film down, I regard the film as an important document and another step towards a comprehensive understanding of the Jewish world, Jewish identity, Jewish tribal operation and Jewish power. As much as ‘You Don’t Mess With The Zohan’ seems to be a sloppy infantile film, it is also a pretty interesting take on Jewish Diaspora identity, its vision of Israel and itself. [Click to read complete article!]
Gilad may be replying to my blog entry Zohan Offends for One State because he mentions that ... one commentator has suggested, for the first time in a Jewish American film, the Shoah is not mentioned even once throughout the film.
Gilad comes to conclusions different from mine, but he was focusing on Sandler's intentions while I concentrated on the effect of the film on an American audience.
2 comments:
Do you think Jews from younger generations are aware of their fathers identity theft? Or have they been deceived along with the rest of us concerning their ancestor's Biblical roots? I sometimes wonder about the extent of this fraud and whether younger Jews really have any knowledge of these things. I suppose they can't be blamed if they don't.
The WW2 generation of Jews seems to be motivated in part by fear that their children and grandchildren did something really wrong in supporting the founding of the State of Israel.
The Rosenberg trial scared a lot of Jewish radicals, who for many years worked hard to conceal any connections with communism or the Soviet Union. Fossilized fear of discovery of this aspect of Jewish history may be motivating some of shrillest resistance to challenges to the commonly accepted Zionist-American Jewish historical narratives.
Post a Comment
Comments are moderated.