One of Us
Leave the faith. Pay the price
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
Wokeness: 30%
Overall Score: 60%
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JustEntertainment
Standard documentary, no woke
There's a shot of a man in a wig at a mental health group that the narration calls a "woman," but the dude isn't elaborated on. There are no woke characters, no strange pronouns, no forced anything, really.
Whether you like / agree with the message is up to the viewer, but there's no woke to be found.
Created: 06-23-2022
Ryan Gen Z
Religion bad, atheism good -- once again
wz-372176, on October 2020, wrote:
Every time I hope a documentary will give me an inside look at a different, interesting way of life, I get the usual, tired, "breaking away from" Amish/ Hassidim/ Mormonism/ whatever. Always with an assumption that religion is oppressive and evil and has nothing good to offer, so why tell us about it?
This was so disappointing, we had practically no information about the Hassidic way of life, only three people who had experienced unusually bad situations, the same sort of things, domestic abuse and molestation that can happen in any walk of life. They were part of the only 2 percent who want to leave the sect.
The counselor in the beginning exclaiming over the woman's number of children and saying "Where was your choice? You had no choice!" was such an obvious use of a trigger word, it was laughable.
We're led to think of the Hassidim as terrifying people keeping their members prisoner, even though "freedom" is just a few blocks away. These young people have left a secure world of warmth, community, tradition, and purpose for a world of drugs, violence, crime and prostitution, but the documentary is careful not to hint at any of that. The positive side of Hassidim was never shown and the secular life was a false promise. A fantasy in the guise of a documentary.
Created: 11-29-2023
