This short film is about a Jewish guy who uses his family's tragic past during the Holocaust to impress a girl. She is a pretty but rather vacuous blonde and on their first date, he actually takes her to a Holocaust museum. Later, when they coincidentally meet at a party, she's REALLY into discussing the Holocaust because she apparently NEVER heard about it before! So, on one hand, she's saddened by learning about this slaughter and on the other, he just wants to score. This is an amazingly tacky story idea, though not as bad or potentially offensive as the episode of "Seinfeld" where Jerry makes out with his date during a screening of SCHINDLER'S LIST. I don't know if this sort of humor offends most people, though it sure skirts the edges and the film takes a big risk. Usually topics like cancer, pedophilia and the Holocaust are comedy killers of the first order, though I did like the film mildly. Some of the dialog was excellent (especially by Zach Galifianakis and the strange guy he meets at the party) but the overall film left me a bit cold--not bad, but also wondering if I should be laughing at this. What do you think?
Review of The Pity Card
