Fiddler on the Roof : I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the wedding

I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the wedding

. . . or even the wedding itself, knowing what's coming at the end.

The second half of the movie is just such a downer. Okay, there's a reprise of Tradition, and Do You Love Me? is very nice and sweet.

But the pogrom, and knowing that that pogrom is coming, really puts the damper on the whole wedding for me. Perchik and everyone else getting attacked at the rally, Hodel leaving for god-knows-where in Siberia and singing Far From the Home I Love, Chava getting disowned, and of course, everyone being forced to leave the only homes they've ever known.

It's just one depressing thing after another.




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Re: I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the wedding

I so totally agree. It's a struggle to finish so I usually don't. Lol.

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That is why Norman Jewison chose Chaim Topol over Zero Mostel. Because he wanted Fiddler on the Roof to be a sombre movie, as opposed to a comedic one. He wanted to show how tough life was for Jewish people living in Christian Europe, which culminated in the Holocaust, back in the early part of the 20'Th Century.



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Re: I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the weddin

I couldn't relate to this movie, so I hated it from beginning to end.

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Being unable (or unwilling) to enjoy other cultures is the core of xenophobia. Grow up.

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Any good, rounded tale has both highs and lows. The lows in Fiddler are pretty low, after all the gaiety and singing that introduces characters you like and want the best for. But real life intrudes. Otherwise, FOTR would just be kitsch.

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Yeah, but this one's just got TOO MANY lows! See that list I put up there? They should have just chosen two of those and not had the rest. Want them to leave Anatevka at the end? Well, you gotta give up the pogrom. Perchik gets beat up? Well then, no disowning Chava.




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It's a bummer when real life gets put in a movie? Yes, they suffered much...and isn't that worth addressing?

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Sorry, but that was the reality of life in Russia's Jewish Pale of Settlement during that time. It wasn't singing, dancing and jokes.

Re: I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the weddin

But that's the problem. This movie starts off wanting to change that narrative - with singing, dancing, and jokes. And then it gets dark.




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Re: I've always found it difficult to continue watching after the weddin

Yes, the second half is a downer but I can never not finish it. I know all the dialogue and songs by heart after so many viewings.








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Hodel leaving for god-knows-where in Siberia and singing Far From the Home I Love …
That's about as far as I can take it. When Hodel gets on the train it's over for me. My late daughter did that scene in High School, so I go through some of the bleaker parts to reach it.

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The OP is right.

I just watched a stage production and I found the violence at the wedding to be very disturbing and sad.
Even though it is the kind of things I have seen in movies, for some reason it hit me like thunder and disturbed me seeing it on stage.

And the ending is so sad where they all got evicted and had to leave.

Sad as it is, it is kinda refreshing to see the realism of history and the world instead of a bullshit Dizzy fairy tale ending.

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