The Motti Wolkenbruch film made me laugh a handful of times, but mostly made me roll my eyes. The film is incredibly lame from a filmmaking perspective and especially from a Jewish perspective.
the manic shiksa dream girl trope is bad enough, but the overbearing Jewish mother trope in this one is even worse. Handing him the phone in the shower? Getting in a car accident because of her excitement about a shiduch? It's sort of insulting that almost all of the women in the film are either potential sexual conquests or shrill cartoon characters. The only exception is the orthodox girl he pretended to want to marry. She seemed to have something going on upstairs. But alas, she's orthodox and wears tzniut clothes, so the movie doesn't want us to be interested in her as a candidate.
the movie's biggest sin, however, is that it pretends that it's theme about setting on your own path is counter cultural. In fact, it is incredibly conventional. It's message of assimilation is designed to make general audiences complacent, not to challenge them.
the manic shiksa dream girl trope is bad enough, but the overbearing Jewish mother trope in this one is even worse. Handing him the phone in the shower? Getting in a car accident because of her excitement about a shiduch? It's sort of insulting that almost all of the women in the film are either potential sexual conquests or shrill cartoon characters. The only exception is the orthodox girl he pretended to want to marry. She seemed to have something going on upstairs. But alas, she's orthodox and wears tzniut clothes, so the movie doesn't want us to be interested in her as a candidate.
the movie's biggest sin, however, is that it pretends that it's theme about setting on your own path is counter cultural. In fact, it is incredibly conventional. It's message of assimilation is designed to make general audiences complacent, not to challenge them.