Straight Edge Life

It’s been a long day waiting for my new light meter. Right about now I ready for that UPS guy to show up and ring my bell. The light is good today. I’ve got a lot on my mind too.

I watched a good movie last night. The Believer. It’s about a Jewish kid who’s hiding his faith and living as a Neo-Nazi. I never know how to interpret a film like this. I rarely rent nazi subject films because it’s such a hard subject to handle. Both for filmmaker and audience. I never feel like I can talk with authority about anti-semitism either. But this is a good movie. Completely devoid of much of the hype and shock value that accompanies so many nazi movies. It’s a clean delivery of a complex subject. I didn’t feel like I was being scolded or moralized while watching it. I felt like it left me to draw my own conclusions and I like that. It gives you a lot to think about but doesn’t force you to think in one direction. The main character afterall is living in the ultimate paradox. Any work the audience has to do pales in comparison to the work this guy has to do to untagle his situation. In a way this film freed me up to think about the neo-nazi issue with a bit more willingness and with a bit more information than I started with.

I advise checking it out if you can. Blockbuster’s got it.