Mawkish Memories
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:54 pm
Douglas Mercer
December 2 2024
Those Jews love strolling down memory lane do they not, especially when that lane leads to the fabled gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau or some other work camp where their Granny Sarah was forced to do a bout of decent labor for a change. The vogue in Hollywood now is for American Jews (fictional Jews) to head to Poland to think deeply about the great mystery of the perfidy of Adolf Hitler, and get dewy eyed (but still with a comic turn!) about the ashes of old Uncle Schumlie. It must be rather nice to control large film studios able to churn out endless reams of such schlock and schmaltz and kitsch for public consumption, and to ramrod the lie down the gullible throats of the paying public, but having doppelganger movies telling the same story might seem a bit much even for Jews who are known for laying the treacle on with a trowel. But it’s nothing doing if you thought the Jews had any shame; there will probably be a third and fourth movie coming up in the near future where a kike couple (husband and wife) feel lost in Manhattan and so travel on a sentimental journey to Poland to wax sentimental about a Jew in their family tree who went in the oven; and then playing in the theater opposite will be a movie where a kike couple (wife and husband) trying to get away from the phoniness of Los Angeles travel on long promised vacation to Poland where they get maudlin over the fate of their grandfather who died ingloriously at the fatal hands of the Himmler and his men. It seems now that Hollywood has run out of ideas, all they do is turn out sequel to the umpteenth number or prequels going back to the mists of time, and they have franchises which beat a story to death long after it is mourned—so maybe what they are doing is gearing up for future where they can simply call the movies Jews Go To Poland 5 and Jews Go To Poland 6 and so on until the crack of doom. The premise will be simple, you take two Jews who are feeling a bit out of sorts in the modern American Metropolis (it can be father-daughter or daughter-father or second cousins or uncle-niece or niece-uncle, no matter, the permutations are endless) and they travel to Poland (always Poland!) and as they bitch and kvetch their way through the journey and make some lame and corny jokes with many comic mishaps they find true meaning at the gift shop at Auschwitz when they come to realize that for all their problems the Jews are one people, have suffered for millennia, and bond over the saccharine mental image of the ashes of their ancestors falling from the sky. Having communed vicariously with the souls of the Six Million victims they can return to America refreshed to resume their meaningless lives.
We detect a theme here. We detect a pattern.
A Real Pain is a 2024 movie about American Jewish cousins David and Benji who embark on a trip to Poland to visit the childhood home of their late grandmother, and to connect with their heritage. David, a reserved and pragmatic father and husband, contrasts sharply with Benji, a free-spirited and eccentric drifter. The pair have travelled as part of a Holocaust tour group led by James, a knowledgeable yet detached gentile British tour guide. The cousins' dynamic is tested throughout the trip, from a missed train stop to a confrontation at the Old Jewish Cemetery where Benji critiques the tour's lack of emotional authenticity and challenges its focus on facts and statistics, to David's embarrassment. Benji nonetheless connects with the group members, who find themselves moved by his emotional honesty.
Treasure is a 2024 movie which is set in 1990 and tells the story of an American journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip creating unintentionally funny situations. Ruth is consumed with self-loathing over a failed marriage, her weight issues (she carries with her plastic containers of stems and nuts with which she makes parsimonious meals at her hotel breakfast table), and her tetchy relationship with father Edek, a Polish Jew. Ruth thinks Edek is being a bit too blithe about their shared investigation into his harrowing past
It’s the same damned plot! Two Jews travel to Poland to learn about the Death Camps so called and have a series of comic misadventures in which they test one another’s patience but you can be sure in the end they bond over they shared horror at the fact that German once wanted to have a country of their own. It’s like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure if by excellent adventure you mean staring at the shoes in the Jews shoe museum and recoiling in horror at seeing the scratch marks on the wall of the gas chamber where they say it was a scream fest when the gas came in. You wonder who is the audience for such tripe but of course there are Jews and everyone who has been bamboozled by Jewish Propaganda lo these many years so that’s a sizeable slice of the population. The message of these movies is to tell the Jews that going to Poland to see where Rabbi Ben David ended up as smoke up the chimney is important, and it won’t be all heavy and dark, they will play it as light comedy though you know in the end there will be some tears shed about the fate of the ever present Six Million who were caught in the cross hairs of Hitler’s remorseless meat grinder. Call it Holocaust lite, the big message delivered with a soft touch, some losers and screwballs who have some screws loose head for the Jewish Killing Field, yuck it up and make some faces, kind of like Henny Youngman meets Klaus Barbie, but rest assured they end up holding each other tight when that single candle reminds them of the flames and the fires. Which in the end only goes to show that the people who made these movies are not national treasures and the Jews, every last one of them, are a real pain in the ass.
December 2 2024
Those Jews love strolling down memory lane do they not, especially when that lane leads to the fabled gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau or some other work camp where their Granny Sarah was forced to do a bout of decent labor for a change. The vogue in Hollywood now is for American Jews (fictional Jews) to head to Poland to think deeply about the great mystery of the perfidy of Adolf Hitler, and get dewy eyed (but still with a comic turn!) about the ashes of old Uncle Schumlie. It must be rather nice to control large film studios able to churn out endless reams of such schlock and schmaltz and kitsch for public consumption, and to ramrod the lie down the gullible throats of the paying public, but having doppelganger movies telling the same story might seem a bit much even for Jews who are known for laying the treacle on with a trowel. But it’s nothing doing if you thought the Jews had any shame; there will probably be a third and fourth movie coming up in the near future where a kike couple (husband and wife) feel lost in Manhattan and so travel on a sentimental journey to Poland to wax sentimental about a Jew in their family tree who went in the oven; and then playing in the theater opposite will be a movie where a kike couple (wife and husband) trying to get away from the phoniness of Los Angeles travel on long promised vacation to Poland where they get maudlin over the fate of their grandfather who died ingloriously at the fatal hands of the Himmler and his men. It seems now that Hollywood has run out of ideas, all they do is turn out sequel to the umpteenth number or prequels going back to the mists of time, and they have franchises which beat a story to death long after it is mourned—so maybe what they are doing is gearing up for future where they can simply call the movies Jews Go To Poland 5 and Jews Go To Poland 6 and so on until the crack of doom. The premise will be simple, you take two Jews who are feeling a bit out of sorts in the modern American Metropolis (it can be father-daughter or daughter-father or second cousins or uncle-niece or niece-uncle, no matter, the permutations are endless) and they travel to Poland (always Poland!) and as they bitch and kvetch their way through the journey and make some lame and corny jokes with many comic mishaps they find true meaning at the gift shop at Auschwitz when they come to realize that for all their problems the Jews are one people, have suffered for millennia, and bond over the saccharine mental image of the ashes of their ancestors falling from the sky. Having communed vicariously with the souls of the Six Million victims they can return to America refreshed to resume their meaningless lives.
We detect a theme here. We detect a pattern.
A Real Pain is a 2024 movie about American Jewish cousins David and Benji who embark on a trip to Poland to visit the childhood home of their late grandmother, and to connect with their heritage. David, a reserved and pragmatic father and husband, contrasts sharply with Benji, a free-spirited and eccentric drifter. The pair have travelled as part of a Holocaust tour group led by James, a knowledgeable yet detached gentile British tour guide. The cousins' dynamic is tested throughout the trip, from a missed train stop to a confrontation at the Old Jewish Cemetery where Benji critiques the tour's lack of emotional authenticity and challenges its focus on facts and statistics, to David's embarrassment. Benji nonetheless connects with the group members, who find themselves moved by his emotional honesty.
Treasure is a 2024 movie which is set in 1990 and tells the story of an American journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip creating unintentionally funny situations. Ruth is consumed with self-loathing over a failed marriage, her weight issues (she carries with her plastic containers of stems and nuts with which she makes parsimonious meals at her hotel breakfast table), and her tetchy relationship with father Edek, a Polish Jew. Ruth thinks Edek is being a bit too blithe about their shared investigation into his harrowing past
It’s the same damned plot! Two Jews travel to Poland to learn about the Death Camps so called and have a series of comic misadventures in which they test one another’s patience but you can be sure in the end they bond over they shared horror at the fact that German once wanted to have a country of their own. It’s like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure if by excellent adventure you mean staring at the shoes in the Jews shoe museum and recoiling in horror at seeing the scratch marks on the wall of the gas chamber where they say it was a scream fest when the gas came in. You wonder who is the audience for such tripe but of course there are Jews and everyone who has been bamboozled by Jewish Propaganda lo these many years so that’s a sizeable slice of the population. The message of these movies is to tell the Jews that going to Poland to see where Rabbi Ben David ended up as smoke up the chimney is important, and it won’t be all heavy and dark, they will play it as light comedy though you know in the end there will be some tears shed about the fate of the ever present Six Million who were caught in the cross hairs of Hitler’s remorseless meat grinder. Call it Holocaust lite, the big message delivered with a soft touch, some losers and screwballs who have some screws loose head for the Jewish Killing Field, yuck it up and make some faces, kind of like Henny Youngman meets Klaus Barbie, but rest assured they end up holding each other tight when that single candle reminds them of the flames and the fires. Which in the end only goes to show that the people who made these movies are not national treasures and the Jews, every last one of them, are a real pain in the ass.
