Prisoner of Her Past

by Pier Marton | Aug 21, 2010 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Film, Health, Jewish, Racism, Review, Shoah, STL, Time, Women

Will play at the upcoming St. Louis film festival!
My review: PTSD or not, the past is the present as it eventually catches up with us. When people survive “hell”, it is key to save them from their past before it is too late.
A Jewish family of survivors in Chicago, NY and Poland opens up to the unblinking eye of a camera which travels to New Orleans to meet other survivors. A
The latest Kartemquin production.

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus