{"id":605633,"date":"2024-01-22T01:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-jesse-eisenbergs-funny-knife-sharp-odyssey\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T01:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:54:02","slug":"watch-jesse-eisenbergs-funny-knife-sharp-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jesse-eisenbergs-funny-knife-sharp-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s Funny, Knife-Sharp Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a357eb0784ba\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a357eb0784ba\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jesse-eisenbergs-funny-knife-sharp-odyssey\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Jesse_Eisenbergs_Funny_Knife-Sharp_Odyssey%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s Funny, Knife-Sharp Odyssey&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jesse-eisenbergs-funny-knife-sharp-odyssey\/#%E2%80%9CJesse_Eisenbergs_Funny_Knife-Sharp_Odyssey%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s Funny, Knife-Sharp Odyssey&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Jesse_Eisenbergs_Funny_Knife-Sharp_Odyssey%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s Funny, Knife-Sharp Odyssey&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJesse_Eisenbergs_Funny_Knife-Sharp_Odyssey%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s Funny, Knife-Sharp Odyssey&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    More actors than ever are now stepping behind the camera to take a shot at directing. To me, they always end up falling into one of three categories. There are the ones who simply aren\u2019t very good at it. There are the ones who wind up making a movie that\u2019s A-okay (not better, not worse), often because they\u2019re more attuned to the nuances of guiding their fellow actors than they are to the grander artistic machinery of filmmaking. And then there\u2019s the elite third category: those rare actors \u2014 Greta Gerwig, Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper \u2014 who turn out to be born filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    To that hallowed company we can now add the name Jesse Eisenberg. \u201cA Real Pain,\u201d which he wrote, directed, and co-stars in, premiered yesterday at Sundance, and it\u2019s a delight and a revelation \u2014 a deft, funny, heady, beautifully staged ramble of a road movie about two Jewish cousins, David and Benji Kaplan (played by Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin), who are taking what someone calls a group \u201cHolocaust tour\u201d of Poland. The tour traces the odyssey of Jews over the last century or so, centering on the historic cataclysm of World War II. David and Benji also plan to seek out the home that their grandmother, who died just a few months before (she was a Holocaust survivor), grew up in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cA Real Pain\u201d is full of blustery talk about a great many things, and the suffering embedded in Jewish history \u2014 the way the past speaks to the present \u00ad\u2014 is one of them. But only one. David, the straight arrow of the two, is played by Eisenberg in a baseball cap as a vintage Jesse character \u2014 earnest and uptight, with a compressed delivery that expresses his nervous nature, yet this is no millennial Woody Allen caricature. Emotionally, David is a bit of a lox, but he has it together. He lives in New York City with his wife and adorable tyke of a son, and he works selling digital banner ads, a responsible and colorless job that suits him. It was his idea to take a week off to do this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, which he\u2019s arranged and paid for, mostly so he can spend some quality time with Benji (Culkin), the cousin he grew up with and was close to (their fathers were brothers), though the two have drifted apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That can h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en, even with relatives you cherish, though in the case of these two youthful 40ish men, it\u2019s a temperament thing. David is a sweet but conventional middle-class drone, whereas Benji is a loose cannon \u2014 a bro who never grew up, the kind of dude who says \u201cfuck\u201d every fifth word, who advance-mails a parcel of weed to his hotel in Poland, and who has no filter when it comes to his thoughts and feelings. He\u2019ll blare it all right out there. Since he\u2019s a brilliant and funny guy who sees more than a lot of other people do, and processes it about 10 times as fast, he can (sort of) get away with the running monologue of hair-trigger nihilist superiority that\u2019s his form of interaction. He can also be quite nice, and knows how to play people. Yet he is, at heart, an anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> misfit, one who\u2019s clinging to the recklessness of youth just at the moment he should be leaving it behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The two are thrown in with the half a dozen other members of the tour group, all of whom are middle aged or older and quite serious about what they\u2019re doing. This makes Benji the antic bomb-thrower and wild card, which is his comfort zone. He jokes and jabbers and interrupts and says inappropriate bro-y things. Yet he\u2019s charismatic. People are drawn to the wit of his self-centered energy. (That\u2019s why he\u2019s spent his life getting away with it.) The film presents Benji as a version of the Magical Pest character \u2014 the one played by Bill Murray in \u201cWhat About Bob?,\u201d Owen Wilson in \u201cYou, Me and Dupree,\u201d and Adam Sandler in \u201cThat\u2019s My Boy,\u201d the hellacious man-child the world should shun, only he turns out to be the life of the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet Culkin, for all his crack timing, is not giving a \u201ccomedy\u201d performance. He\u2019s doing a sensational piece of acting as a compulsive wiseacre addicted to the ways of one-upmanship. Benji has the personality of a hipster slacker crossed with that of a corporate dick. He\u2019s funny, he\u2019s rude, he\u2019s charming, he\u2019s manipulative, and he will suck the life out of you. Yet Culkin makes him real, and the movie, which Eisenberg has scripted with an ear for the music of ideas and for contrasting voices, presents the story of these two cousins \u2014 how they interact, what they mean to each other, how their past intersects with the present \u2014 in a way that\u2019s so supple you can touch their reality. To put it as Benji might: <em>This, people, is what fucking filmmaking is about<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At first, Benji seems irreverent about history itself. Journeying out from their hotel in Warsaw, the group stops at a WWII memorial for Polish soldiers (who loom, in sculpted metal, 15 feet tall), and all Benji wants to do is pose next to the sculpture and have his photo snapped; David thinks that\u2019s disrespectful, but everyone in the group soon poses along with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Things turn more somber when they hop a silver train into the Polish countryside. They all have first-class tickets, and Benji starts ranting about how offensive this is given what trains meant to Jews during the Holocaust. He can be a kind of left-wing scold, but what he\u2019s saying here might almost be a page out of Milan Kundera. He\u2019s moralistic, but he\u2019s right, and the fast-talking action begins to sink into a meditation on our relationship to the past. At the site of Poland\u2019s oldest gravestone, Benji chews out the tour guide (Will Sharpe, from \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d), a British chap who is not Jewish, for pelting them all with too many facts. He\u2019s right about that one, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film\u2019s title, of course, is a pun. Culkin\u2019s Benji is obnoxious enough to be \u201ca real pain,\u201d but the movie is also about what it takes, in a world conspiring to insulate us from reality and history, for people to experience <em>real pain<\/em>. Eisenberg unfolds the story with an organic flow, and he has a gift for interweaving airy comedy and gravitas \u2014 the unbearable lightness of good screenwriting \u2014\u00a0that\u2019s reminiscent of what Richard Linklater brought off in the \u201cBefore\u201d films. \u201cA Real Pain\u201d is an easy watch, a buddy movie rooted in the existential fun of verbal sparring. Yet it has an emotional kick that sneaks up on you. The other actors all make their marks \u2014 Jennifer Grey as a perky but mournful newly divorced Los Angeles \u201clady who lunches,\u201d Daniel Oreskes and Liza Sadovy as a stolid bourgeois couple, Kurt Egyiawan as a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who converted to Judaism. By the time they journey to the Majdanek concentration camp, the film opens itself up to sorrow and pity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Benji, the most arrested person on hand but also the most thoughtful, keeps insisting on the primacy of history. The complex way the movie views him is that his perception gives him soul, even as he\u2019s unable to apply it to his own life. He\u2019s brilliant but lost, unlike David, who has found himself. I never saw Eisenberg\u2019s first feature as a director, \u201cWhen You Finish Saving the World\u201d (which played at Sundance in 2022), but I can testify, or at least predict, that he\u2019s going to have a major filmmaking career. As for Kieran Culkin, his performance in \u201cA Real Pain\u201d feels karmically timed to the end of \u201cSuccession.\u201d He was just crowned with an Emmy, but he started off in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, playing the hero of the superb \u201cIgby Goes Down\u201d when he was 19, and \u201cA Real Pain\u201d establishes that his fast-break insolence can work on the big screen in a huge way. The film\u2019s final shot is a beauty, because the entire question raised by Culkin\u2019s Benji \u2014 can he change and redeem himself? \u2014 is reflected, with haunting ambiguity, in his look. That\u2019s stardom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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