Hiding and Seeking
May 27, 2008
I REALLY love these DVD delivery services like Netflix and Blockbuster online. I wish I lived next to a blockbuster to take full advantage of their return service but I don’t own a car so I use Netflix cause I find the interface easier to work with. Plus I think I may one day own my own computer and will be able to view the movies they made available for streaming at home.
The last movie I received off of my Queue was a Documentary called “Hiding and Seeking”. Based around the family of one of the directors, Menachem Daum, he seeks to validate the principle that god created “this one world and this one people”. He is afraid that his studious orthodox sons will fall to the teachings that gentiles are never to be trusted. He takes his wife, two sons and one grand daughter to Poland to visit a Polish family who hid his wife’s father and uncles during WW2.
I cried. It was totally unexpected, all the emotion and genuine reactions of the subjects involved. The documentary never really clues you in to the next scene and suddenly you are watching a family meet the actual people who are responsible for their very existence. From a humanistic or religious viewpoint the emotional response is the same.
As a non-believer and semi-humanist I feel its important to take in some religous material. I read “Blue Like Jazz” and TRIED to read “The Dawkins Delusion” after losing any faith I had left after college. In those cases I regret the time wasted but not with “Hiding and Seeking” which was a wonderful and rewarding film.
