Final Thoughts on the Movie

During the course of the movie, there were several things that seemed to pop out at me. Most of them impressed me, and I was very surprised on how good the movie was, being sort of an art film. One thing that I was impressed at was how there was only one actress who played every single character, which is quite impressive. She has to have some talent to play 10+ characters who all have very different personalities. This also made me feel tired of the same actress though. After a while, I became bored with how she looked and hungered to see a new face playing a character. Each character represented in the film seemed real, which was probably due to the environment they were in. Instead of just interviewing these people in the same room or the same setting, they were interviewed in their natural environment. Some were eating, some were on the phone, some were behind fancy desks in big chairs, it all seemed like a real conversation with these people. The format of the movie was very unique and creative.
The actual subject matter that they discussed in the movie disturbed me a little bit. I was surprised me that there was this much racial tension in New York between Blacks and Jews. I had no idea that Blacks and Jews had it out for each other, and it was completely bewildering to me. I thought that it was just a simple mistake that a Jewish man ran over the little black kid, but I do believe that an apology should have been in order. Instead of actually confronting the problem, everyone just tried to force it down and not really deal with the problem. Tensions would inevitably raise to a boiling point and eventually violence and hatred would continue on. I think this should be a lesson to the U.S. by saying we need to actually talk about and study racism instead of just ignoring it.