Posted on 03/01/2020 7:58:40 AM PST by Kaslin
It doesn’t take long to realize that Howard Ratner, the jeweler in Uncut Gems, a movie written by Benjamin and Joshua Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, is one flawed Jew.
Howard (rivetingly played by Adam Sandler) is an accepted figure in New York’s Diamond District, where many Jews make their living. Judging by his offices, his posh Long Island home and his Midtown getaway apartment, Howard makes a good living. He is blessed with a beautiful wife and with healthy children but prefers the company of a young mistress (Julia Fox, in a finely nuanced performance) who works for him.
It doesn’t take long to realize that Howard Ratner, the jeweler in Uncut Gems, a movie written by Benjamin and Joshua Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, is one flawed Jew.
Howard (rivetingly played by Adam Sandler) is an accepted figure in New York’s Diamond District, where many Jews make their living. Judging by his offices, his posh Long Island home and his Midtown getaway apartment, Howard makes a good living. He is blessed with a beautiful wife and with healthy children but prefers the company of a young mistress (Julia Fox, in a finely nuanced performance) who works for him.
Ratner rejoices over his spoil when it is smuggled to him in a dead fish. The opal brings rare taste and beauty to his store, which is filled with vulgar items like a crucifixion figure featuring Michael Jackson, not to mention vile and sacrilegious language.
By seeming lucky chance, star basketball player Keven Garnett (playing his 2012 self with artistic aplomb) visits the store, and Howard shows off his new treasure in hopes of instant profit. Howard brags about its originating with “Black Jews,” but without mentioning how they were exploited, both in Ethiopia and by Howard.
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Interesting and somewhat wacky film with an intensely unsympathetic lead.
With the read if you are from these parts.
I lasted about 30 minutes into the film before I turned it off. It seemed to me to be the script of a couple of 18-year-old kids, and was supposed to 110-percent fake-gritty...which it failed upon.
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