What is potential?
Oxford dictionary explains it as "latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness."
I think the problem with this movie started with the decision to combine comedy with drama, or more aptly put: the indecision of choosing drama or comedy.
There definitely was a good story quality to be had. It sounded viable...two young cousins, Jews on a Heritage tour to motherland of Poland, finding themselves from within and without, contrasting one another in personality and ambition, contrasting modern Poland with Holocaust Poland.
But when I watched it I felt, "uncomfortable and cheated." I found nothing funny about what I saw or felt. Nor did I need to. I would like for this movie to receive a golfer's mulligan and try again!
It's a shame, too... because there is such an important message lost within this story to be had...
Yes, it was a bum movie for me...and I was bummed!
"A REAL PAIN appears to promote a brand of vague, godless psychobabble that never gets to the moral, spiritual nature or heart inside the two cousins. So, the movie just ends, with no real resolution which is often the case with open-ended humanist art movies like A REAL PAIN." https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-real-pain.html
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Shirley Belk
Mother, Nana, Sister, Cousin, & Aunt. Retired RN (Nursing Instructor) who loves to write stories to heal herself and reflect on all the silver linings she has been blessed with :)
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