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Plot
Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Benji Kaplan: We stay moving, we stay light, we stay agile.David Kaplan: Yeah.Benji Kaplan: The conductor’s gonna come through, taking tickets, we tell him we’re going to the bathroom.David Kaplan: Bathroom towards the front looking for stragglers.David Kaplan: Sorry, we’re the stragglers?Benji Kaplan: Yeah. By the time he gets to the front, the train is going to be in the station and we’re home free.David Kaplan: This is so fucking stupid. Tickets are probably like twelve bucks.Benji Kaplan: It’s the principle of the thing.
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We shouldn’t have to pay for train tickets in Poland. This is our country.David Kaplan: No, it’s not, it was our country. They kicked us out ’cause they thought we were cheap.. 12 Studies, Op.
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25, No. "We stay moving, we stay light, we stay agile." Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin)A Real Pain is a comedy, yes, handily crafted by writer/director Jesse Eisenberg, yet it is also a serious drama about the differences between two Jewish cousins traveling Poland in honor of their recently deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. David (Eisenberg) is John Milton's Il Penseroso and Benji is his L'Allegro, two opposites of the former characterized by Melancholy and The Latter Mirth. David is the grounded, nerdy, contemplative one and Benji (Kieran Culkin) is the off-the-wall motormouth whose joys nevertheless bear thinking about.
Writer/director Eisenberg never allows either character to gain our censure
His advice (above) to David to stay cool as they avoid paying for their train ticket has David's careful thinking combined with Benji's chutzpa.Less the bi-polar nut, Benji is rather a funny, smart boy -man too smart to say stupid things and too immature to tone it down. The sympathetic soul of the movie is in his character, who connects with the other Holocaust tourists in an inspired way that makes them remember him. When they tour a concentration camp, however, barely a word is spoken: as if the history of the genocide weighs too heavily for words. Only Benji's words that advise the guide, non-Jewish James (Will Sharpe), to find the real emotion in the statistics he offers, make a difference (Kurt Egyiawan), a convert to Judaism, and middle-aged Marcia (Jennifer Gray), who is melancholic waiting to be freed from her sadness over her divorce.
Despite Benji's recent severe dark moment, David worries about his rootless, charismatic cousin
Even more than a balanced depiction of two completely different relatives, A Real Pain shows the emotional benefits of L'Allegro and the grounded reality of The Thoughtful. They are, after all, blood relatives, almost brothers, who are vastly different but under the history of the Holocaust and their grandmother, just like the rest of us trying to understand the horror and the joy of living. A buddy movie it is, but all about words, not action as in Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid.This light comedy-drama should be a heavyweight contender for Oscar.. From Alien: Romulus to Road House, take a look back at some of our favorite posters of
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