We’re all faulty.
The Father – is obsessed with his career because of his involvement with his family. He’s a caricature of an intellectual who is emotionally infantile and blind to what is happening with his wife.
The Mother – The Mother is emotionally unstable, driving with her kids in the car towards a hurricane, leaving the Father at home with the baby. The kids in the back of the vehicle are terrified, and she says – It’s all for a reason!, Calm down. That behavior demonstrates an irresponsible grown-up. She is obsessed with Benny, a friend of the family she drags along from state to state, and in the end, she renounces her family in California to live with him happily in Arizona.
The Gentile World – is ignorant and antisemitic. Some devote themselves to converting the Jews, like Sam’s girlfriend; others persecute and ridicule them by calling them “kike” and “Bagelman” instead of Fagelman, the protagonist’s last name.
The Jews – are the only house in the neighborhood without Christmas Lights. The Jew would do anything to buy the gentile’s protection, as Sam did in the movie Ditch Day. Sam presented the gentile as a hero to buy a piece of mind for a short while.
Sam dates a devoted Christian girl hoping to marry her, oblivious that the girl would never marry outside of her religion.
As a teenager, Sam makes a short Western where the hero walks alone into the horizon after reflecting on his triumph since all his friends are dead. At the movie’s end, Sam walks alone with no strings to his past.
Everything in the movie is professional. The actors are excellent, the music is melodic, and the filmmaking is flawless, but what is the message?
What’s the reason for making this movie?
To show a sad world, imperfect people in an aimless life.
