Sunday 2 January 2011

Inside the mind of a self hating mind

The Believer (film)Image via Wikipedia
Inside a Skinhead/The Believer, is the last movie I've watched in 2010, the curious, but not completely unique story of a self-hating Jew, based on the true story of Daniel Burros, member of the American Nazi Party. In comparison with the real story, the movie introduced a couple of smooth nuances: as, for example, the remords, the doubts about offending the holy symbols of Judaism (as for example, destroying the scrolls of Torah), the possibility of a coming back, the permanence of its Jewish roots that cannot be denied without deniying its own self. And also, some scattered remarks about the need to separate Zionism of Judaism.
Perhaps, it was a tentative image of a portrait of some tendencies within the American Jewry post-Shoah?
You can have many thoughts unless you don't read the bio of the real character, who was suffering of various mental instabilities and at least a double/and troubled/ personality. A psychiatric inquiry inside the mind of this Daniel Burros might be more useful and rich in trying to understand such cases, on a very scientific basis.

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