Because I like Jewish culture, I will definitely watch Israeli movies whenever I come across. Watching Israeli movies requires a certain amount of background knowledge. However, Jewish culture is still very small in China, so there are always various puzzles and criticisms in the reviews of Israeli movies. I would like to analyze this film with my knowledge.
Israeli Jews are typical extroverts who love to lively and party in the Mediterranean, but most Israeli films are mainly repressed. Different from the absurdity of Spanish films and the magnificence of French films, the repression of Israeli films comes from religion. Historical politics. Furthermore, Israel is a country with a super diverse society. This film focuses on the life of the Israeli Orthodox Jews. This group rejects modern technology. The established track of daily life is to study the Torah. The vast majority of people do not work and live on government relief funds. The polarization between the rich and the poor in Israel is quite serious, and it is these orthodox Jews who are poor (Israel’s economic data this year shows that the employment rate of orthodox Jews is 20%). Because they reject modern technology, their lives seem to be isolated and mysterious. Because they reject modern lifestyles, they live in poverty as monotonous as their clothes. Faith is everything to them.
There is no secular Jew in my memory in the movie, and the whole movie is about Jewish orthodox community life. In Aaron, the rabbi went to the man Israel’s house with the father of the woman’s father who was in a relationship against the morals of the community. Aaron found a TV hidden in a cabinet in his house (they should reject the modern lifestyle). This family It is no longer as simple as violating the taboo of male and female dating, they challenge the bottom line of the entire orthodox community. Then Aaron said that they stopped the moral picket from coming to their house and they should stop. The man who said "I love her" with great confidence before became dumb. It can be foreseen that this period of true love between men and women is no longer sustainable, but a man said before that aroused Aaron's interest: "I am willing to do anything for her." At this point, I suddenly seem to understand the meaning of the title eyes wide open. The eyes are originally the eyes of the community. They have been watching you. You can't do anything different from others. In the main storyline, the rabbi came to the butcher's shop and chased away the young monk Torah who had come to defend the morals of the community. The rabbi asked Aaron why he kept Ezri, and Aaron replied that he felt he was alive. All of a sudden, the rabbi realized that Aaron was no longer as simple as taking in the "pests" of the community. Aaron challenged the bottom line of the community. The rabbi slapped it over. This love will end unsustainably. In fact, Aaron is still struggling, maybe he is willing to do anything for love, but Ezri still loves his ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend gave up Ezri. Ezri decided to leave Jerusalem with great grief. Aaron finally caught Ezri, but it was useless. For Ezri, perhaps Aaron is just a substitute for his ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is the reason Ezri came to Jerusalem and stayed there. This reason is gone, and he has no motivation to continue. Aaron's heart was taken away by Ezri. Without Ezri, he could only stay in the community, hoping that everything he had before could heal his heart of being "bewitched by the devil", but he returned to the place where he had an informal date with Ezri for the first time. , I don't want to come up when I am immersed in the water. None of the three men who fell in love with men in the film were happy because of their wide open eyes. Every group wants to exclude dissidents and maintain your humble life. Please accept everything in the group.
They are the first time I have seen a movie that reflects the living conditions of Orthodox Jews. It is still a same-sex movie. To a certain extent, it satisfies my desire for voyeurism. Orthodox life is nothing more than that, it is a humble life.
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