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  • He's fairly irrational in his anti-semitism, which is more tied into his Christian beliefs than his racism.

    Thinking racists don't turn to arguments like perversion, nor do they deny scientific research. If anything, they embrace it.

  • @ChudFapper On the contrary t your 2nd sentence; racists cannot support scientific research because the latter disproves racial superiority list that He mentions here.

  • I've heard of popcorn in the face but this is ridiculous

  • About 02.15-02.20 is awesome moment of acting. Erasonate.

  • He is absolutely right in the most of his speech!

  • This is actually a very pc-version "anti-semitism" written by a jew. If you really want to know how and why jews have a pernicious influence on Western Civilization, google Kevin MacDonald and "The Culture of Critique." You don't think Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Mencken et many als were critical of jews because they were a bunch of ignorant, in-bred rednecks do ya?

    P.S. Jews control the commercial banks, too.

  • @seans10 Actually, Daniel Balint's speech pretty much parallels all the points made in "The Culture of Critique"; something that was obviously lost on you.

  • @FamilyGuyRocks89 I suppose our disagreement lies in the fact that "pretty much" is a vague, weaselly way of choosing not to assert something directly and the fact that you haven't read The Culture of Critique. Oh, I almost forgot, happy belated Hanukkah!

  • @seans10 It's not "vague" or "weaselly"; we both know I can point out, bit by bit, the correlations between his speech and CofC.

    Merry belated Christmas!

  • 3:09-3:19 best line ever

  • Ryan Gosling deserved an Academy Award for his performance in 'The Believer.'

    I don't know what kind of crack the "Academy" is smoking.

  • Get the DVD and go through the extra features. The guy who wrote/directed it explains the movie was blackballed by powerful jew organizations that thought that Balint's anti-semitism a bit too articulate and persuasive & that if exposed to it, the flyover goyim might get ideas. Voltaire, Kant, GB Shaw, Mencken and Eliot et al. weren't a bunch of "mouth-breathing, trailer-park rednecks". Look into it.

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  • really great movie. wish Netflix had it.

    Ryan Gosling is great. check him out in Lars and the Real Girl.

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  • man!! ryan gosling..... right??

  • @coolboyut yeap

  • the best definition of Jews ever.

  • ISRAEL ARENT JEWS?? dont make me laugh.

  • Absolute insanity!

  • Is it just me watching this and asking myself, 'What the *fuck* is this crazy bastard on about?'

  • @JimmyMacJones Propaganda to discredit nationalism via the white racist insecure skinhead cliche.Its the nature of films to give with one hand and take away with the other.*Zionist*ashkenazi jews run the banks,and it them who manipulate the culture;its a distraction to throw attention onto the semitic torah jews rather than the babalonian talmud crypto zionists khazarians living on stolen from palestine land.

    Semi disinfo.

  • This movie is jewish propaganda. 

  • @SrpskiFront14 And you are a slav. No insult needed.

  • @Stevenio Slav is social construct. And jews are race of mongrels!

  • @SrpskiFront14 This is based on a 1965 scenario where the kkk had a Jewish member. What propaganda?

  • @StopAntiIsraelibias It's Zionist propaganda that expresses pro-Zionist/Israel sentiment while projecting the lie that Israel is the answer, that Zionism eliminates the negative aspects of "Jewishness", while the truth is Israel acts as their headquarters for international operation rather than just a 'peaceful homeland where they can be separate'.

  • @SrpskiFront14 It is, the director is a Zionist Jew. The movie brilliantly hints at truth while inserting little subversive pro-Jewish/Zionist tidbits that add up to a basically pro-Zionist movie. What a shame right? All this great acting by Gosling, all the emotion and half truths.

  • hitler was a catholic, look at the belt buckle on the nazi soldiers. and read mein kampf.

    ryan gosling said "white christian men"

    i need not say more

  • @brysonisSXE are you ignorant or just retarded ? how could him be a Christian ? how is jesus message adapted to the nazi ideology ? do you understand that nazis believed in pagan gods ?

    Oh really man, theres some real idiots out here in youtube. Grab a book. READ.

  • @fackafacka Actually Adolf believed in Odin and he was using the idea of Christianity just for the manipulation of the crowds. The wehrmacht had on their belts Gott mit uns which makes sense if Hitler was a Christian. He was, in the public, but if you get to know him you'll see that he loved Wagner with his operas about Siegfried and Odin and co...Himmler was a pagan and he influenced Adolf a lot. Read his book:)

  • @mariacristianamarcus ok ... so till, we agree he was not a real christian.

  • @mariacristianamarcus I don't believe Hitler was an Odinist per say, he was definitely into the Occult and Vedic scriptures, which are fundamentally pagan, life-centered and much more grounded in truth than any one particular following.

    That's what I've come to understand, anyway. Christianity he rightfully (in private) condemned as the Jewish man-centered contruct it is.

  • I wonder if The Believer was released in Germany?

  • @macroevolve

    Yeah it was called ''Inside a skinhead'' though.

  • the writing in this movie had a lot of weak points, Ryan Gosling was too good for this flick

  • lmfao i saw this in german class :P

  • I remember watching the behind the scenes of this movie on Showtime and

    it was said that this is based on a true story. Not a Jewish Skinhead but a Jewish Klanman's.

  • @black2much because these liberal jews inseminated the western establishment with their ideas of cosmopolitism, liberalism, finance and trade, deindustrialization, all the values of traditional european societies were changed. I don't say it's wrong or right, I just explain his opinion.

    When he talks about Freud, Einstein and Marx, there were atheist, liberal and assimilated jews in fact ! Absolutely not religious. At least, religious jews stayed in their ghetto and didn't burden the society...

  • ima keep that in mind about a jewish girl.

  • i love this scene!

  • GLEN TENNIS

  • perfect SHJ

  • The truth ! Only the truth !

  • I never realized what a great actor Ryan Gosling is!

  • god this man is a genius

  • Jesus wasn't a Jew. He was a CHRISTIAN! DOWN WITH JUDAISM!

  • @Cabal777 Jesus was a Jew and an Israelite you fucking idiot and because of him Christianity exists.

  • @Jamrty123 Shut your piehole, moron. If I wanted your opinion, I would have beaten it out of you.

  • @Cabal777 No idiot. It is not an opinion it is a fact what I said and I was correcting your incorrect statement. Christianity only existed because Jesus Christ died on the Cross. So before that, when he was a child, there really was no such thing as Christianity.

    To prove how STUPID you really are I did not actually use my mouth when I insulted you I merely used my fingers to type my statements on this Youtube site.

  • @Jamrty123 You incest victims are too dumb to realize that religion and philosophy that Jesus preached became known as Christianity, not the other way around. Now go fuck yourself.

  • @Cabal777 You are the one who is saying it is the other way around by saying that Jesus was a Christian. Jesus was a Jew and Christianity only came about because of Jesus's teachings you fucking wanker.

  • @Cabal777 You would beat it out of me would you. You would be me until I told you something that you did not want to hear. YEAH, that makes sense, NOT. So you lose an argument and you are proven wrong so you resort to threats of physical abuse do you. GROW UP YOU IDIOT and do not make stupid incorrect statements like the one you previously made.

  • my favorite scene of this movie

  • Incredible Acting! <3 omfg Ryan

  • Why would you say he is Jewish? He was forced to practice Judaism as a child, and broke away as quickly as he could. It's a religion, not a nationality. Just because your parents have a certain faith in doesn't mean you have to.You can't change nationality, but you can change your religion. The problem is most people are sheep and let their family dictate their beliefs and never even question what they will believe.

  • @trulysarcastic Most Jews are semites. When people refer to Jews as an ethnic group, they are referring to semitic peoples, not the religion of Judaism, per se. Because of their persecution through the centuries, they formed a tight knit group that has become its own ethnicity. Just like not all Muslims are Arab, but most are.

  • The Absolute Truth.

  • God created people. Its just some were born evil any man that gets a little power Such as Hitler all that evil and power it goes to they head and then theres the followers who add fuel to the flame, following some lunatic we all get old and die and when that day come we all have to answer for all the wrong doing we done. all you haters and racists fanatics need to except that jesus was black and black people is the superior race so I see why alot of us are angry (GET OVER IT)

  • God created people. Its just some were born evil any man that gets a little power Such as Hitler all that evil and power it goes to they head and then theres the followers who add fuel to the flame, following some lunatic we all get old and die and when that day come we all have to answer for all the wrong doing we done. all you haters and racists fanatics need to except that jesus was black and black people is the superior race so I see why alot of us are angry (GET OVER IT)

  • @jusdastud37 you complain about racists then claim that their is a superior race. Thanks for a good laugh,lol.

  • @trulysarcastic racial hatred and racial superiority are two different things. only one of those can be classified as legitimate racism.

  • @ACosmicFuckYou a belief in racial superiority is racist,while it doesn't automatically encompass racial hatred, it's almost invariably intertwined.

  • @trulysarcastic not really. 

  • @ACosmicFuckYou considering there is no superior race, the belief in that there is one, is racist. Saying "not really" isn't much of an argument. Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each racial group possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, in particular to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another racial group or racial groups.

  • @trulysarcastic the environments our ancestors lived in and their ways of coping with them caused the races that had little contact throughout most of human history to develop slightly differently. it caused certain characteristics to be more prominent in certain races than in others. i understand admitting this fucks with your white guilt and all the liberal bullshit you were fed growing up but it's pretty blindly obvious. hence the tendencies of stereotypes to prove themselves correct.

  • this is more of like the ZOG theory

  • Don't really agree with anything that skinhead is saying but fuck me he's a good speaker!

  • this guy said it himself that jews control the media, banks and stuff, this is movie literrrlly shows that the illuminati, zionists jews etc r controling the whole of US, and that they were behind the WWII and funding of hitler

    and they don';t give a shit about jews they only created israel for their own attachment and ti bring about the new world order

    innocent jews r being victimised and they have always been mistreated

  • is this guy a mooslime?

  • @SHMUJEW Is SHMUJEW a jewish troll?

  • Don't get me wrong. Even I think that this skinhead depicted in this movie was too extremist, he had some good points but even me as a radical think that this was too radical :) But it was Probably because of his personal experience as being with jewish heritage .But may be it was made as a movie purpose to over dramatize this script as it seemed to be another one of those so-called "anti-fa" campaigns. I liked the movie though. I recommend to watch it whatever you believe in.

  • Jewish have secret plans which they do not reveal- talmud is basically a handscript how to take over the world and that's the holy scripture for them. You don't need any secret document or theories to know what jewish culture actually assumes, just read Talmud. A thousands of differenet nations have been destroyed during worlds history. Take Vietnam or Japan, where they threw atom bombs (Americans did) And only ones, who world feels sorry for, seems to be jews. This is just sick.

  • Everything he said is 100% true.

  • I could never for the life of me understand why there are many evil people in this world. nazis, kkk, radical muslims, etc.

    This is coming from an ex muslim, always knew islam is a dangerous false religion harming many people of faiths to Christians, Jews and even atheists. yet I brought up in a semi Jewish neighborhood and never had any problems with Jews at all. Why the hate towards them?

    If anything, I find many muslims are intolerant pieces of shit with their totalitarian ideology.

  • @SoloQ

    Why are you so tolerant towards jews and intolerant towards muslims. Haven't you ever read Talmud? They write there that whoever reaches helping hand to a drowning Christian should be forever cursed. The greatest sin for a jewish is also considered to convert Christianity- to be atheist or muslim is not considered that bad. It's not who they are -it's what they believe in- they believe in pure evil. But they don't talk about that, do they?

  • @dontlayeggs For one, I've had many problems with islam when I used to be muslim. There are nice people and bad people. So I wouldn't say I am intolerant towards muslims but many of them are not open minded to other people's faith. example, there are muslims that will view christians as inferior because of their religion.

    I found Judaism and its adherents are straight forward polite people.

    And yes I read some of the Talmud, it is not what some indicate it to be if you read it in Hebrew.

  • @SoloQ And yet muslims everywhere will swear up and down that they DON'T hate Jews. Why is that? I have never been able to figure that out about them.

  • @oldstock1607 not sure why, I guess because their quran and hadiths tells them that Jews tried to kill their prophet in the 7th century. there were many disagreements between muslims and jews.

  • phff wowww, good fucking acting, some of the beast and most convincing i've seen ever.

  • anti-semitism is a unique perversion of society, it stems from the hatred of what Judasims essentially stands for: god. "listen israel i am your god i am ONE." the gentile hates these words and has a natural inclination towards idolatry. While the jew is inclinded toward monotheism. Think about this concept, abstract version of god, this mindset gave us minds like freud, marx, spinoza, einstein, etc..

  • @pboisei . Although it is difficult to sift thru different sources and be sure of the facts, it does appear that many Jews never fully integrate themselves in the nations in which they live. They remain extremely ethnocentric and work together against "the other" (i.e., non jews) to accumulate great wealth. Using this wealth to dominate the media, banking and political systems, always with an eye to "what is good for the Jews", not for the commonwealth of the host nation. Expulsion follows

  • modern world is jewish desease

  • Ryan gosling is a great actor !!!

  • ah, the self-hating jew.

  • MANNNN hearing ryan gosling talk like that...sweet jesus.

  • Just caught this last night. It was really good. Gosling was damn good. Just continues to push my belief that all religion is bullshit.

  • that " Marx, Freud, Einstien" argument really kinda got me thinking for a moment

  • @domapusic It was the gentile's who ran with there idea's that made it bad, not the ideals themselves.....at least in Einstien's case...

  • @LDKBBAB what i got from this is the idea that jews in europe, being excluded from land ownership and many other activites turned to abstract thought and became prominent in those fields ( psychology, social philosophy) - it's like a cultural heritage - and no, i don't think that's a bad thing

  • Every word is true.

  • he's right though... jewish girls do give good head

    :P

  • @qoaa yeah, when its on a pike.

  • I still don't know why everyone hates Jews???

  • @Sanana135 if you're so scared of nazis and if you don't know why people hate jews, just read a NS book and think about it. You didn't see the film or what?

  • @gorfaf88 Sorry, I'm not gonna hate jews.

  • @Sanana135 it's not a question of hating jews. If you're in control of your mind, you can analyse other people's opinion without adopting them. Keep a critical mind, but don't fall into cliches ("nazis are poor dum people that hate everyone without reason, blablabla").

    I am anticommunist, but i studyed communism longly and got communist friends.

  • @gorfaf88

    Cool you're open minded!

    *Place bro fist here*

  • @gorfaf88 And no I didn't see the film or what.

  • I'm kinda scared of Nazis :/

  • the jews are better lovers XDDDDD!!!!!! ahahahaah i know some israelis girls that would say very much the opposite, and if not why when they see a spanish man they fuckign go wet, believe me, i know... besides ive been in israel and is truth that they are sexually very perverted, and even sick, theres a lot of raping there, and is because the jew male is FUCKING SICK IN THE MIND IN ALL SENSES!!!!!

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  • @YogSothothOfGuitars muahahahaha yogsohtoth what are u a cock sucker of ctulhu XDDD?? u shut the fuck up u fucking rpg freak, have u ever gone to spain and said that to the face a spanish guy? i would like to see it poof

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  • man, really, shut up friend of the jews, ure pitiable, even from here i can sense that u would shit ur pants if u had to say all this in my face, and besides, i can show u that ure the 10 years kid and ur parents are the sibblings, at any moment talking about anything, and i bet u what u want, and now, forget about my existence and live urs with ur ass open to the sionism, fucking bitch

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  • this movie is not antisemistic, hes talking about a guy that considers himself really jew, a pure spiritual jew that hates nowadays jews, is more a sionist than a nazi, anyway the movie is all jew victimism propaganda hiden, but i like the acting of ryan and has to say some real things so is not pointed as propanganda, this scene tells u very well what they want in the mouth of this actor, they been doing this long time, telling what they gonna do in movies, the want nothingness but for US!!!!

  • I am not anti-semitic just because I can see the reality.

  • A sad comedy where Jews pretend to be Nazis. Some actors here are Jews acting as Nazis. Neo-Nazis today are mingled with the evangelical conservative groups against non-whites specially Arabs, Latinos and blacks. Evangelicals and extreme right-wing groups are pro-Israel. This movie is just a trivial propaganda where Jews keep portraying themselves as victims. Read: On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend by Timothy P. Weber

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  • I'm Israeli , most of Israelis (I mean Jews) hate those fucking religious jews with the haredi jews with black hats and suits. they are parasites who live on other people expense.

    they do not serve in the army because this fucking religion , have lots of kids and not working.

    I'm a Jew and I (and most of Israelis ) hate them more than those stupid antisemites.

  • @mynameiskobi actually, you didn't understand any single word. the nazi anti-semitism is not against religious jews at all. IT'S THE OPPOSITE. He said that the fundamental jewish problem is among secular liberal jews. these jews advocates globalization instead of patriotism, finance and trade instead industries, crafting or any production and liberal thoughts instead of traditional.

    hitler and the nazis hated much more secular and liberal jews than religious ones

  • Long Live Israel!

    watch the video "IDF, Protect The Holy Land" on youtube!

  • heil hitler

  • is gosling a real jew?

  • @alexman24893

    No, he was raised Mormon but I don't think he's practicing.

  • @severiscariot no he doesnt practice it, he is a very religious guy but there is no particular religion he is practicing. Thats what he said.

    Ps: he is so good in this movie

  • Very stupid question but is it true that Jewish women love to give head?

  • @shihtzucutie indeed, very stupid question =/

  • he is very articulate not like the other rascist fucks who just hate without a point

  • @alexman24893 I think most people who are "racist" usually do have a reason why they don't like one group or another. I think your misinformed by saying most people who are racist are idiots. Hitler, David Duke, Jesse Jackson etc.

  • Why would you say he is Jewish? He was forced to practice Judaism as a child, and broke away as quickly as he could. It's a religion, not a nationality. Just because your parents have a certain faith in doesn't mean you have to.You can't change nationality, but you can change your religion. The problem is most people are sheep and let their family dictate their beliefs and never even question what they will believe.

  • I ordered this movie on dvd,i hope its a good movie !!!.

  • @deneheat101 Trust me, one hell of a movie.

  • This film's best feature is the portrait of Daniel Balint. He is not a typical thug, cocky, clean-cut, violence-obsessed neo-Nazi: he has some brains, perfectly emphasized here.

  • KILL Urine_Bubbles!

  • free palastine

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  • exacly

  • actually Israel stole the land in 1948. America is the only country that feels that the entire land belongs to Israel. When people say free Palestine, it means let's help these people from having to live in a apartheid situation As former President Jimmy Carter talks about in Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,

  • Oh so by that diluted rational Jordan stole Eastern Palestine which was over 70% of the British mandate Of Palestine in 1914-25, and Lebanon stole the Syrian coast line of French mandate of Syria in 1920. So if Israel 'stole' anything it was under UN resolution 181 calling for a two sate solution which Israel agreed to, and the Arab League walked out of.

  • I think you meant deluded not diluted

  • The French broke off that part of Syria and given it to the English. We got our independence in 1948 . So Israel stole that part of Palestine because they're not Jews off Abrahamic stock they're Zionists and European Israelites. He has hit the nail on the head. Jews and Arabs all live in Palestine always have done. But Zionists live in Israel.

  • This Clamms guy is a retard , don't bother with him. He thinks there's nothing wrong with stealing a land that doesn't belong to European Israelites he thinks Orthdox Jews and Arabs can't live in Israel only European Israelis you should see the appaling way the Orthdox Jews are treated in Israel, like they're dirt. They kill thousands of Palestinians every year. Only a Zionist would defend that, not a Arab or a Jew.

  • Free Lebanon from Zionism twat.

  • @theHeliosphan1 Lebanon never had Zionism..instead Islamofascism in the Shia degree..Free Lebanon from HisBully..Syria/Iran.

  • Sneaky bugger, but he's right.

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  • What is he right about that the Jew is a wonderer, by choice? or has no roots? forced to live in ghettos, forbidden to own land marginalized as a human being and persecuted to an almost extinction.

  • forced to be a wonderer?, I guess if you forsake Israel and America, then a jew would be a wonderer.. Do you know or care how Israel treats Palestinians?ask them about the check points or the ghettos they live in. How many anti arab films are there. I think you could count on one hand how many anti jewish films there have been. Every race and religion has another group who opposes them

  • Islamofascism? is that all you can come up with ? Hitler had funding from the Rothschilds he had 150,000 European Zionist Jews in the Third Reich. You have an illegal amount of check points in Palestine, a land that belongs to Jews and Arabs not European Zionists and you use Chemical weapons in the Gaza strip and Southern Lebanon. Get your fucking soldiers off Lebanese soil you idiot. Then you wouldn't be defensive not fascist.

  • We didn't get the Hezbollah until 1982 our civil war started in 1974-5 that's because a few brainwashed Lebanese Christians and Israeli soldiers were going into the Palestinian refugee camps and butchering innocent refugees. The Christians who are with the Hezbollah I salute. But it's always some excuse so get your soldiers away from Lebanese soil and close your check points in Palestine, stop using chemical weapons in the Gaza strip and Southern Lebanon. Then we won't be ''fascist''

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  • How so Gabe? Elaborate.

  • I like this movie because it forces you to inhale the insanity of, really, all shades of racism. The very image of a jewish nazi is a perfect metaphor for it.

  • It's called a self hating Jew who is sick of Antisemitism.

  • I always find it fascinating that people refer to him as a jew. People seem to mix up religion and nationality. You can change your religion, you can't change your nationality. He was forced to participate in Judaism as a child, once he had any form of free will, he converted/stop believing,etc.

  • No you are mixed up. Judaism is a religion that does not have Many Nationalities for It to be like Catholicism. Nor did Judaism ever convert en-mass by empire because they are a dispersed people with cultural ethnicities Sephardic, Ashkenazi ,Mizrahi. spanning from one major ethnicity: Judean. Nationality is different; its being from a country,and/or it's citizen, not Ethnicity, that is what you were trying to say.

  • Ever wonder why you're getting a minus one for your comments? you're a European Israelite a Zionist not a Jew.

  • I liked this scene because his arguments were fantastic. He was bang out on Jewish behaviour and the myth of the holocaust.

  • The "Myth" of the Holocaust!!?? Millions Slaughtered and Gassed because They were Jewish??? The Myth is what He is saying here . That is Nazi Propaganda at its best. However for shallow minded hypocrites as You these are words at their worst.

  • The holocaust is prescribed in most modern media is a fictional story. Also, why would any group choose gas chambers as a method of death? It doesn't even make sense. Machine gunning would be far more efficient - most cost and time effective.

  • This speech isn't racist though since it's accurate.

  • This movie is a million times superior to that horrible over the top cartoon, known as American History X.

  • Ed Norton was good in that film, but I agree with you that this film is clearly better.

    American History X was melodramatic in comparison---this film felt almost too real (in fact, it is loosely based on a real character).

    Ryan Gosling delivered a KO performance in this. Amazing.

  • Lol, Ed Norton's character in Americian History X was also based on a real person, although he never had a change in thought about racism. But I agree, the way this movie was filmed is amazing and the acting was great. I enjoy it more than Americian History X, too.

  • @Wytchfinde I agree Norton was great, but I found lots of plot points in 'American History X' contrived and just plain silly.

  • @haloarh such as?

  • @Wytchfinde melodramatic?!?!?! he was fucking skinhead of course he had to be dramatic about his beliefs

  • @BlackpeopleLOL American History X was a fucking joke.

  • @BlackpeopleLOL No it's not, IMO American history X is way better.

  • @BlackpeopleLOL shut up you fucking jew this movie is a piece of shit

  • @BlackpeopleLOL blasphemy!

  • excelllent Film !!

  • good actor

  • Gosling's best role, and one of the best written films ever! Every line in it makes you think. What a brilliant film, beginning to end!

  • A general question for those who have seen the entirety of this movie: Does this movie posit that anti-Semitism (unlike all other forms of bigotry) is essentially different from and unique among ALL other forms of bigorty? Or, is it simply an elaboration upon a man's inability to reconcile his "Jewishness" with his sense of good, which he would define as "power" (a Nietzschean concept)?

  • The story is about a single individual, mostly. Danny at a fairly early age decided that the Jewish mindset was one of weakness and compliance, which is shown extensively through flashback scenes of him in school studying Isaac and the sacrificial ram, it disturbed him that Isaac was willing to sacrifice his son without any questions and even though