Imagine being in a world that controls the life of its members ultimately taking the dignity and free-will from what every human- being is entitled to have. In the documentary One of Us, three young-people share the stories of their time in the Hasidic Jewish community and how their escape to freedom came back to bite them. The filmmaker utilizes pathos, ethos, and logical fallacies to make the audience feel compassion towards the ex-members of the Hasidic Jewish community and the suffering that comes with leaving the lifestyle. Throughout the film, the filmmaker follows the three victims around in their everyday lives by using somber music and backgrounds of depressing colors. The documentary starts off with colorful images of the scenery …show more content…
Usually, logical fallacies are used to prove the flaw in a piece of work, but in this case, fallacies are used to guide the audience in the speaker’s battle to make difficult choices that are life-threatening. During a scene, a speaker named Ari, freshly out of the Hasidic community, talks to an elder man about his decisions in leaving the lifestyle. The man says that there is a choice in which every member must make. He uses the Either- or fallacy to present a choice to Ari, either you stay in the Hasidic world and obey the terrifying laws or go out into the secular world and suffer in isolation. Genetic fallacy is also used. The Hasidic community despises the secular world because of the enslavement and horror they encountered during WWII, making a standing impression that anyone who is not a part of their community, are evil. These fallacies support the argument of sympathy towards the speakers by showing the choice deprived- community they were once a part …show more content…
We all have different customs, religions, and traditions that make us who we are, some accept the communities they are brought up in and some rebel against for obvious reasons. The film One of Us takes the audience on a journey into a twisted lifestyle in an isolated part of Brooklyn where former in-slaved post WW2 Hasidic Jewish live. The three-young people share their stories and take the listeners on a voyage of their unfortunate situation. The producers use the power of music and color to contrast the two worlds of secular and non, showing the pain and the raw emotion of the speakers and not only showing, but making us feel for them, feel that we need to take a stand for the ones who are
In order to obtain religious, social, political, and equality 23 million Jews immigrated to America during the years between 1880 and 1920 (Chametzky, 5). Anzia Yezierska wrote about her experiences as a poor immigrant in her fictional work becoming a voice of the Jewish people in the1920s. She struggled to obtain an education that allowed her to rise above her family’s poverty and gain a measure of autonomy. Rachel and Sara, the female protagonists, mirror the author’s life going from struggling immigrant to college graduate. Yezierska uses her own experiences to portray the Jewish immigrant experience with a woman’s perspective. She successfully gained a commercial following that allowed her to mediate the cultural differences between the mainstream culture and the Jewish people that helped resolve differences between the established Americans and these new immigrants for a time (Ebes...
I chose to write about Jewish-Americans after my mother, who was raised Christian, chose to identify herself as Jewish. In my reading I examined Jewish culture and how it is in American society. I looked at how Jewish-American culture has become a prominent component of American society. I looked at the historical forces that have shaped Jewish-American experience in the United States. I looked at demographics of where most Jewish-Americans live. I examined how Jewish-Americans have contributed to our culturally pluralistic society in the United States.
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When Hasidim, who belong to an ultra-pious movement within Orthodox Judaism, immigrated during the post World War ll era in large numbers to America, they sought to build a community similar to the European Shtetl culture to which they were accustomed. In the Shtetl they had lived a traditional and insular lifestyle. Hasidic leaders of the new immigrants founded communities that shunned contemporary Western Culture. Their successors continue to lead the mainstream Hasidic establishment with the same ideals. The only contact with society at large these communities accept is the contact that is necessary for them to nourish themselves.
Brandeis’s depiction of Jewish qualities is, more than anything, a call to understand Jewish identity. As a proponent of Zionism, Brandeis recognized the importance of unity, and tried to bring Jews together in identifying their characteristics: “…qualities with which every one of us is familiar…” (Glatzer 707). In the United States, a country whose Jewish population was composed of Jews from other nations around the globe, a sense of strong identity was of singular importance. These treasured qualities of mind, body and character “…may properly be called Jewish qualities.” (Glatzer 707). Brandeis redefines the meaning of “Jew” for those who had lost themselves in immigration and overwhelming anti-Semitism.
A joyous celebration of the sanctity of life is generated through the element of Mood and atmosphere. The clip begins with a soft orchestration of piano and violin, creating a magical melody. The choice of melody creates the mood and atmosphere that influences the audience to feel joyous from the outset. The use of lighting adds dramatic effect to the mood and atmosphere of this scene; a warm yellow beam of light streams out of the barn, cutting through the dark and rainy morning, which
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The film stays in line with classic noir in many ways. The usage of dark sets and high contrast lighting, which creates heavy shadows on the actors faces, makes the movie feel like it all happens at night and in dark alley ways. The story focuses on the inhumane parts of human nature. Each of the main characters experiences some kind of tragedy. For Vargas his tragedy was in dealing with Quinlin who has set out to frame him and his wife. For Quinlin his entire life represented a man consumed with darkness who lives his life with a “Touch of Evil.” Menzies was a hopeful man who looked up to Quinlin but was let down. For the viewer, film noir represents truth, even if it is not a truth that all people would like to hear.
For a Jew arriving in America from Europe starting anew marked a defining point. After losing six million Jews in the Holocaust, the United States of America served as one of the most secure havens for reestablishing a strong Jewish presence ...
As the Diaspora experience is presented as a distinct identity trait of the Jewish people, there is ...
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Even though Zionist and non-Zionist hearts bleed together at cruelty and mistreatment of Jews, there are many differences such as, the portrayal of Jews. “The basic proposition is that three-fourths of the Jews of the world are living in hopeless misery. Of the ten millions, one-half live in the pale of Settlement in Russia under conditions which have been depicted repeatedly to the horror of civilized mankind. One million are in Galicia, ni...
Sad music accompanies certain scenes in Blackfish to influence the reader’s emotions regarding what they are shown. The documentary opens with audio from the original Dawn Brancheau accident 911 calls. Underneath this audio, mournful music plays. Even before the viewer
...successful collaboration of sound, colour, camera positioning and lighting are instrumental in portraying these themes. The techniques used heighten the suspense, drama and mood of each scene and enhance the film in order to convey to the spectator the intended messages.
This film captures this class distinction without subduing the atmosphere through the use of a variety of cinematic devices. “A good film is not a bag of cinematic devices but the embodiment, through devices, of a vision, an underlying theme” (Barnett, 274). The audience can see this theme of the realities of the oppression, poverty and despair of this time period through the use of the things mentioned, but also through the character development that is driven by the character’s hopelessness. Each of the characters associated with the lower class is motivated by the conditions, which are viewed through the cinematic devices mentioned above: color, spherical lenses, long shots, and high angle shots. Sources Cited:.