Maybe the best romcom out there. On a side note, are all minority communities in America the same? Change some of the names and accents, move it from Chicago to New York, and it could have easily been about my family.
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Overture to Glory 1940
I think that a lot of people who are criticizing the film for its positing of religion against secularism are forgetting the fact that we are watching a historical document from a world-view and culture that in many ways does not exist anymore. This movie reflects life in the old shtetls of before the war, not the open liberal world of the West today. What is being put in tension is not "faith" against secularism, but two very different worlds.…
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