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- 28 minutes
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- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★★ · The jewish ideals as a fashion statement · Spuzz · 2015-12-11
When I first started watching this film and came across it's bombastic beginning dedicating this film to teens with bombastic decency (note the underlining) I thought for sure it was going to be this social guidance melodrama. What I DIDN'T know was that it was going to be of all things, anti-semitism! A teenage girl gets a bracelet for her birthday by her otherwise bothersome (but great) younger sister. She goes back to the jeweler with her friends when she finds out there is a second part to it. That second part is a star of David pendant! Her friends, and soon, pretty much the whole town…
★★★★★ · It's Not Over. Even Today · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-22
"The war is over. The Nazis are finished.This kind of thing [anti-Semitism] doesn't happen any more," says Norma's awkward dad, telegraphing what's to come in the rest of the film. It does happen, of course. Norma reads a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and decides to show visible support of solidarity with Jews, defiantly wearing a bracelet with the Star of David. Her friends are too uncomfortable with it. She becomes an outcast. The town's bigots ooze out from hiding and now show their true side. "Go along with the crowd," says her dad. Would he say that if they were talking about sex? It…
★★★★ · It still happens even in the 21st century... · Bill Long255 · 2023-12-18
It's so difficult for an old guy like me to see people with their bigoted feelings display them even now. I wish it was all over.