1 April 2020: I am African American. I love Israel. I like watching films about Israel and the Jewish people. I speak basic Ivrit. I have seen many films and t.v shows in Hebrew. Israeli actress, Shira Hass and Israeli actor, Amit Rahav both deserve best actor awards for outstanding and superb acting. I would have like to have seen Israeli actors, Lior Raz and Moran Atias in this film.
Unorthodox in some ways is a very poignant story, but also like other races and cultures in the world where a young man and young woman do not get the chance to know each other by physical attraction, it is just arranged by the parents of who they think one should be with. It's old slogan of when two young people are put together without anything in common or physical attraction, "well, you will learn to love him or learn to love her." I felt very sad for Ester/Esty who and all women who suffer like her of having to just go through the mechanics of sex, no romance, no foreplay of kissing the lips, neck, breast and backside or her kissing him.
For Yanky and Esty it is like punching a time clock on a job. "Okay, are you ready? Let's get in bed. I, the man will get on top of you, put it inside of you and be done." It sad that it does not matter, if the woman enjoys love making or not. She just has to endure the pain. I being a man, felt so bad for Ester/Esty in bed when she kept trying to let her husband penetrate her, but with her being a virgin, the pain was too much. No woman wants to be in bed like that. I was very happy when Esty finally told him that the Bible/ Torah says that husbands are to make love a very happy and pleasurable time for the wife too. (Songs of Solomon, chapter 1.) One of the things I did like is what I have heard several years ago from a Jewish person. When Esty tells her doctor that she wants to keep her baby and the reason is the Jewish people are trying to replace the six 6 millions Jews that were killed under Hitler's regime. That will Not replace the deaths of those dead Jews, but the idea is wonderful. Seeing the end of remorse of Yanky, I wish that he and Esty would have gotten back together. I only wish the film would have been in Hebrew instead of Yiddish, so I could have kept along with the language.
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