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Offline Lisa

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The Movie "My Mexican Shiva"
« on: September 16, 2008, 01:57:26 PM »
Did anyone see this film?  If so, what did you think?

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Re: The Movie "My Mexican Shiva"
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2008, 01:58:17 PM »
Never heard of it

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Re: The Movie "My Mexican Shiva"
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2008, 01:59:56 PM »
It's a Mexican film about a rich Jewish family of Polish ancestry living in Mexico.  It covers the seven days of their shiva (like a wake) for their father.  It was interesting and funny.  However, the more I think of it, I feel as they showed the Jewish characters negatively. 

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Re: The Movie "My Mexican Shiva"
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2008, 03:20:35 PM »
Mexico is not exactly known as a bastion of philo-Semitism. They compared the wall separating Judea and Samaria from the rest of Israel (not that it is a good idea, but still) to the "apartheid wall" that Republicans want to build along the U.S./Mexican border. They aren't as nasty as blacks, but aren't that far off either.