Everything Is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber , 2005) is the adaptation, the less curious, autobiographical novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer . The film tells the story of Foer, so that, without taking the huge dramatic charge becomes a humorous piece of convincing.
Jonathan Foer, played by Elijah Wood in grace hidden behind enormous glasses, is a Jewish American citizen who travels to Ukraine looking for the woman who helped his grandfather escape of the Nazis in that country. There will be accompanied by two members of a family that is dedicated to guiding the country to foreigners who come looking for answers about his Jewish ancestors.
first thing that catches the attention, to start the movie, and it suggests where the shots go over the footage, is the "friendly" presentation of the main characters. Jonathan is presented as little more than the stereotype of Jewish Hollywood: obsessed with collecting objects related to his family, apprehensive and timid and bewildered air. Then there is Alex, played by for me hitherto unknown Eugene Hutz, and it is the most charismatic of production: a resident of Odessa (Ukraine) is a young man who does not conform to its roots and is ideal American life you see in the media, a lover of hip hop and the black (sic), will be acting as an interpreter between Jonathan and the natives. And finally there is the equally picturesque Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin ), a grumpy old man, determined to pretend to be blind, but takes in a driver for the expedition, and always accompanied by his faithful "guide dog" named Sammy Davis Junior-Junior.
From the moment we can guess what will be the mainstay of the comic charge that permeates the entire film: the cultural differences and confusions caused by them. So Everything Is Illuminated reminds other films like Borat, which shows the people of the former Soviet republics with a cultural backwardness in relation to its American counterparts, although this case differs from that mentioned in This is a country in Eastern Europe and not Asia, and sense of humor used is much less beast. But most of the jokes and gags have their foundation in the rednecks who are the Ukrainians (at least as the film presents them to us.)
The other axis on which the film turns dramatic component is expected in any movie that addresses the topic of the Holocaust, but no less painful and emotional. Also speaks about personal identity and memory, and family relations. In all this we must add a picture that blends the price of natural landscapes with the desolation of some of the built environment and a soundtrack just fantastic, and we can say that we are facing an exciting and beautiful road movie as herself while it fun and entertaining.
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