What did Shira write on the note for the Rabbi?
I missed it in the subtitles.
shareIt wasn't in the subtitles. I hate to say this, but that scene reminded me of A Serious Man.
shareSince the rabbi gave permission for them to marry, she must have told him in the note that she loved Yochay. The rabbi wouldn't allow the marriage when he thought she was doing it because that's what everyone else wanted.
shareYeah, so basically lied and said she had changed her mind and loved Yochay. Not an auspicious beginning to a marriage. She had told the other suitor that she wanted a home with no lies. And yet she founded hers on a lie.
shareNo, I don't think she lied. She did love Yochay, it just took a while for her to realize it.
shareso basically lied and said she had changed her mind and loved YochayI think you miss the intent of quite a few scenes between Shira and Yochay in which it is implied how well they grasp one another in spite of the family tragedy and resultant pressures this brings to bear on both of them.
The distance is nothing. The first step is the hardest.share
Yochay was 1000x better looking and charming than the guy she saw in the dairy dept! It's odd marrying a brother-in-law, but in their community that is accepted, I guess. Anyway, the actor who plays Yochay is very good looking. Maybe if they had a plainer actor, it would have been easier to sympathize with Shira's anguish.
http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0
I think that Yochay being gorgeous, for so the actor is, and empathic made her anguish more acute. There was a strong intensity between them and if she was attracted to Yochay, as some of us audience viewers were ;), then her decision would have been more difficult and conflicted.
The one thing Yochay couldn't provide, which the young man she sees in the dairy could have offered, was being married for the first time and the excitement and enormity for the newly wed man and woman.
Movement ends, intent continues;share
Intent ends, spirit continues