Everything Is Illuminated - the review

[battlemistress]

The reason why movie critics have full time jobs is because of films like this. It can be taken on so many levels it needs a small novel just to figure it all out. I'll do my best

Comments

[catscradle]

I've always thought that a film or book can tackle an over exposed topic and still be fresh so long as it remembers the individuals involved and their importance over the over-arching idea. Powerful stories always remember the individual, and that's what Everything is Illuminated remembered. It's not about the Holocaust. As you say - it's about people who discover. The author used the Holocaust because that's his heritage, but it could just have easily been about any culture spanning three generations. And an insane dog.

[battlemistress]

I'm So crushed they didn't work in the phrase "masticates her own tail". They showed it, but didn't say it. I would have thought it would have been a ton easier the other way around. And speaking of Sammy Davis Jr Jr... I also maintain she should have gone with Jonfan. After all, since grandfather didn't need her anymore...! Breaks my heart.

[catscradle]

If nothing else, I want a followup of Jonathan getting an insane dog from a shelter and taming it with his mind warping glasses.