- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2013
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Perpetually-angry man is informed he has 90 minutes to live and promptly sets out to reconcile with his family and friends in the time left.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Family | God | Grieving | Identity | Individualism | Love | Narcissism | Personal | Personal change | Political | Redemption |
Self-expression | Society | Solipsism | The State | White culture - Similar to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Nurture versus Nature
Despite most of the characters being Jewish, this is something of a White Whiners film. A strong sense of White decline pervades in that the basic unit of Society (the Family), as such, is seen to let many of the characters down when they most need its support and help.
A culture abandoning the Family in favor of the cult of Individualism and the dubious comforts of the State, becomes unsatisfying to its adherents; producing the personal depression, psychological ennui and social malaise shown here. That such a weak Personal and Cultural hinterland is allowed to exist is testimony to the stupidity of Whites in their seeking a characterless and a soulless identity (the pretense of achieving the unknowableness of God) by pretending that families are less important than individuals - when they both need one other to fully nurture each other.
In this, of course, the film is an accurate description of a particular culture, but contains no real insight into the all-important question of “Why?” The White assumption is, of course, that all cultures should be like White culture - if not, then there is something wrong with those other cultures. This has the affect that Whites do not feel the need to change so that the decadence on show - the reversed Field of Dreams-like need to resolve family estrangements - here can only continue to get worse.
Despite some absurdly-plotted coincidences, the performances are generally fine, while the movie, itself, is often quite hilarious; making this a sincere, touching and heartfelt plea for acceptance of both self and others - as they are, not as one would like them to be.
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