I had mixed feelings after watching this movie. It is a good thing to smash the '' protocols of Zion '' to smithereens by showing the ridiculous side of it. The protocols are just a bunch of lies written by the soviet propaganda machine to blacken the Jewish population in that period of time. There's nothing more to it. But that doesn't mean that it's not true that the Jewish community has a fair amount of influence in western politics. In the conflict between Israel and Palestina it is quite obvious that there is more political aid to the Israelian side than to that of the Palestinians. The rise of antisemitism in the Arabic world is therefore far more difficult to comprehend than the way Levin portrays it in his movie.
I'm not a fan of using false sentimentality to show your point. And that's exactly what Levin is doing by ending the story with a holocaust survivor and a widow that lost her Jewish partner. By implementing these scenes, it's quite obvious that Levin lost all criticism. He doesn't want us to show the real story behind the rising hatred towards Jews, he wants to make a statement against racism in general. I can feel sympathy for his cause - antisemitism is wrong, just as any racism towards a minority - but that doesn't justify this superficial approach. There's so much more to the antisemitism than he is showing us. Maybe he should've stick to the protocols and unnerve them, instead of making it a grand message to racism against Jews.
I'm not a fan of using false sentimentality to show your point. And that's exactly what Levin is doing by ending the story with a holocaust survivor and a widow that lost her Jewish partner. By implementing these scenes, it's quite obvious that Levin lost all criticism. He doesn't want us to show the real story behind the rising hatred towards Jews, he wants to make a statement against racism in general. I can feel sympathy for his cause - antisemitism is wrong, just as any racism towards a minority - but that doesn't justify this superficial approach. There's so much more to the antisemitism than he is showing us. Maybe he should've stick to the protocols and unnerve them, instead of making it a grand message to racism against Jews.