the movie was entertaining, somehow funny..not really a tragedy
but i enjoyed the movie.
at the end, is she end up with the guy (avionam) ?
if i'm not mistaken, he said he'll be leaving to tokyo with his wife, but he come to the funeral and holding her baby.
I was wondering the same thing. I guess they left it open so we could make our own assumptions.
Because the other three are figments of your *beep* imagination!-Banky
I think that the ending is meant to be assumed, that he made the choice to be with Nina, and she wanted to be with him. I think the movie is interesting, because presumably it is about the boy who has the hots for his aunt, but really, it is about the aunt. I think that had he been left out of the plot, the movie would have had a phenomenal plot.
shareI agree that the movie was more about Nina, and her men than the boy. We don't get a lot of reason to feel from his perspective, and perhaps that was intentional. Perhaps he only needed to be there to provide the narration. If so, I think it's clever that we expect it to be about him because we're used to narrators within a movie being the protagonist, but we slowly discover what appears to be the real main character. Looked at that way, you got the phenomenal plot that you wanted. Personally, I never found myself relating to Nina, and I suspect that perhaps it's not really about her either. I was more drawn to the men in her life. In a strange way, this idea can be supported by the movie's title, where the tragedies were not so much events but were the men themselves. I think I'm making too big a stretch however and it's supposed to be about her and that I felt that the male actors upstaged her a bit.
sharenot a tragedy? losing a husband, a child not knowing its father, and a boy who will grow up without his father more than suffice in terms of tragedy.
shareIn Judaism, the funeral is held almost immediately after death. They went straight from the hospital to the funeral. There isn't a large lapse of time between the two last scenes, perhaps 30 minutes or an hour or two.
shareIn Judaism, the funeral is held almost immediately after death.
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Interring the dead may occasionally be delayed, but only for the honor of the dead. Thus, the rabbis allowed a delayed burial in the following cases:
1. When the government requires delay, such as for the legal transportation of the body, or for the completion of forms and papers, or for post-mortem examinations which must be performed prior to burial.
2. If delay is caused by having to wait for the delivery of shrouds or a proper casket.
3. If close relatives have to come from great distances, and it is considered an honor to the deceased for these relatives to be present. There should be, however, no unduly long period of waiting such as the common misconception of the permissibility of waiting three days would imply. Also, the delay should be based not on arbitrary guesswork as to when "most" people will attend, but on definite knowledge of the time of the arrival of close relatives such as children or parents.
4. If the eulogizing rabbi is delayed and the presence of this particular rabbi would be an honor to the deceased.
5. Rather than to hold the funeral late on Friday afternoon, the funeral may be postponed until Sunday (because the Sabbath intervenes).
6. On major festivals, Jewish law forbids Jews to inter their dead on the first day of the holiday, but permits non-Jews to perform the burial on that day. On the second day of such festivals it permits even Jews to do the burying, but other than the actual interment, no other violation of the sanctity of the day is permitted. Because conditions in contemporary society are such that funerals on either day of the festival invariably result in needless transgressions of the law, it is preferable to postpone the funeral until after both days of the holiday.
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The film didn't get bogged down dealing with the deaths, it was done in a light manner - which made it extremely enjoyable.
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