The Original Girly...

It's tricky, this movie. Not everyone will like it.

It's about a young Jewish Man (Elijah Wood) who goes on a journey to the Ukraine to find a woman who saved his grandfather.

But it's funny.

But it's not a comedy.

See?

His guides on the journey are an old, cranky, blind (but - not really) anti-semitic grandfather, his "seeing eye bitch" - and the translator grandson, who speaks as if he learned from a thesaurus. "Many girls want to be carnal with me... because I'm such a premium dancer!"

The humor though. Is more on the dry side.

Then, All kinds of deep things happen and twists, curves, and amazingly left field stuff that makes you sit still and stare at the screen. Really stare, in that absorbed way. Excellent writing (this film was once a book).

In the end, I was moved.


Alex (translator) to Jonathan (Jewish man):
I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.