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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097363403449
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D340344D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Neal Slavin's surreal adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1945 novel Focus is as didactic as it is genuinely harrowing. Written as an illumination of the rampant anti-Semitism that Miller experienced as a young man in wartime New York, the film is a suffocating fable of the perils of conformism, which repeatedly corners the viewer into wondering what he or she would do in Lawrence Newman's shoes. Set near the end of World War II, Focus posits a grim, nightmarish outcome to the end of the war where patriotism has eroded into xenophobia and growing paranoia.
The Union Crusaders, following the inflammatory rhetoric of a nationally broadcast radio preacher, have begun to openly blame the Jews for the war and threaten all non-gentiles with bodily harm. As the meekly protestant Newman (William H. Macy)--recently demoted at work because his new glasses make him look "too Jewish"--soon becomes a target in his own home, he is forced to open his eyes to the hatred surging throughout the city and his own past silences and collaborations. While the script is relentlessly one-dimensional in its message, strong performances by Macy, Laura Dern (as Newman's leftist love interest), and Meat Loaf (as Newman's menacing neighbor) deliver anxiety and fear presciently reflective of today's climate. --Fionn Meade
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Near the end of World War II a middle aged Brooklyn man wakes from a nightmare, looks out his window and sees a neighbor beating and raping a young woman who we learn dies of her injuries while her attacker goes unidentified and unpunished. So begins FOCUS a film with a great message that is not as subtle as it could be in delivering it. The man at the window is Lawrence Newman a respectable middle aged bachelor who lives in a tidy home with his invalid mother. Newman (William H Macy) works as ... Read More
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Arthur Miller wrote the novel which is the basis for this movie during WW2. He is using his experience and observation of antisemitism in New York to build a vision of neighborhood Nazism, with a movement called Union Crusaders fighting against non-Christians. The story uses the clever device of a hero who is a non-Jew, who happens to look a bit like the Jewish stereotype and who happens to be a bit of an outsider who dislikes meetings and groups and handclapping and cheering, and who marries a woman ... Read More
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This is an amazing jewel of a motion picture. It appears to address anti-Semitism.
I think it goes much farther in speaking directly to the blind eye of non-participation; to the forces that perpetuate injustice.
It's also an exceptionally beautiful film that joins moments of intense, personal experience into a rare example of the high art of teaching history minimally to repeat offenders.
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Mr. Newman needs a new pair of glasses to focus his faltering vision. However, this also brings into focus the ugliness of what's really going on around him in his neighborhood. The title of the movie is perfect. With the new glasses, Newman looks more 'Jewish' and soon experiences all the bigotry first hand in this WWII setting. Now that he has a bitter taste of what it's like to be turned away from jobs, harassed at home and beaten up on the street, will he continue to ignore the truth, or are his eyes ... Read More
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Let me first start with the obvious: antisemitism has been a serious problem throughout history, present in many societies and causing the deaths of million of Jews. That said, the problem with this movie is that it views the United States - probably the most welcoming society ever to Jews outside of Israel - as a not very different place from Nazi Germany. Set in 1943, the movie is about a Christian man (William H. Macy) who gets confused with a Jew after he starts wearing glasses!. A number of very nasty ... Read More
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