Seder-Masochism

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Yui @Thvr_ Dec 23 I don't know Nina Paley and I don't follow her work much, but I'm Catholic and I must say I enjoyed the film. The choice of songs is perfect and makes the social critiques, especially of modern Israel, wonderful,I confess that you can feel the emotion even though it's an animation, hehe. I really enjoyed the animation style and especially the satire at certain points. But it's important to always say, it's not a film meant to be taken seriously. Nina Paley doesn't present an impartial narrative; she tries to portray paganism as free from the supposed religious patriarchy, But she forgot to show the sexual orgies and sacrifices that constantly took place in paganism. Paganism is only beautiful in Renaissance paintings. It's a lie that there was a "break" from the mother goddesses in history; she only adopted specific contexts from religions and mythologies. But it's brilliant how she represented the real oppression of women; Nina Paley is a genius, she just shouldn't have faked realit See more S R @ScottR 02/28/2023 Saw this after watching Sita and it was a big let down. The narrative was odd, inferred and solely musical besides a man narrating as God? I should've avoided it after the title, but decided to persevere despite it. It was on youtube. See more 04/05/2020 Todo es grandioso en esta película de Nina Paley, la forma en que narra la historia del judaísmo, la música, la animación y el relevante papel de la mujer, esplendoroso. See more 12/02/2019 Nina Paley strikes back, and this time is personal. Jewish-personal, in her second and newest addition to her indie, borderline-handcrafted, animated canon. A 10-year in the making response to the main backlashes against Hindu-centered 2008's "Sita Sings the Blues", this time departing from emotional fragility to dive deep into questioning her own Jewish upbringing, patriarchy, and the extinct worship to womanhood. Paley's "Seder-Masochism" offers both intimate perspectives and imprudent comedy displayed through, again, multi-layered storytelling that ranges from visually reinterpreted recordings between the author and the late Hiram Paley (Nina's father himself) to a Moses tap-dancing uphill on a supiciously "straight" Mt. Sinai over the beats of Singing in the Rain. And, even though the film's solemn intention is both to tribute and ridicule traditions she implies were forced upon her during childhood, the result is still a joyful manifesto inviting to find new lights in the Book of Exodus with now varied animated musical numbers including from The Pointer Sisters to Led effing Zeppelin. Sprinkled by instructing sections about the notorious Jewish holiday of Passover through both a Last Supper vocalized by a ceremony recording and the impressive experimental weaven animation of "Chad Gadyo". And finally crowned with maturer concepts of figures flexing and flowing through the screen, intoducing and interluding Paley's vision along the ever mesmerizing talents of the Bulgarian State Television Female Choir ("Ghost in the Shell", "Brother Bear"). A recommended watch despite its more episodic and contrived formula when compared to the author's first feature, for - if this is the kind of blasphemous depth for your cup of tea - then "Seder-Masochism" will refill it four times with Passover wine for your dark and trippy sense of humour. See more Read all reviews

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