Are human feelings compatibles with the religious world? The question in itself is quite silly, but it is an answer: no. Gitai's Kadosh is a delicate - and well worked demarche from the point of view of the images: long, with outlined contrasts between light and dark marking the various episodes of the movie - incursion into the haredi world of the ultra-orthodox groups from Jerusalem. A world when getting married is just a matter of following the decisions of the parents, without having any sense of the reasons of why two people should stay together, but for having children and getting a certain sense of normality. It is no place for love, for nuances, for understanding. And, even when it is, as in the case of the couple of Meir-Rivka, the social pressure and the authoritarian decision of the parents are prevailing, without any opposition from the part of those directly concerned and seriously affected. The strangest aspect of this dimension is the fact that, many of them are having opinions and making judgements about a life they hardly know. And the ignorance is passed on from a generation to another. With the rare exceptions when people simply leave the group and look for their chances outside, as far as possible.
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