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Holocaust and heroism: "Hunters" is an unnatural meltdown between Holocaust films, Tarantino and superheroes - Walla! culture

2020-02-18T21:20:43.704Z


Although the Amazon Prime video series is entertaining, its attempt to concoct a story that on the one hand draws regularly from the unimaginable tragedy of the Holocaust and on the other hand to be deliberately embellished and ...


Holocaust and heroism: "Hunters" is an unnatural meltdown between Holocaust films, Tarantino and superheroes

Although the Amazon Frame video is entertaining, her attempt to concoct a story that on the one hand draws regularly from the unimaginable tragedy of the Holocaust and on the other hand to be intentionally embellished and exaggerated, leaves her behind

Holocaust and heroism: "Hunters" is an unnatural meltdown between Holocaust films, Tarantino and superheroes

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Everything you need to know about "Hunters," the new series coming up Friday on Amazon Prime Video, is in its opening scene. We will not detail anything to ruin, but it includes a semblance of pastoral and parasitic tranquility, out of which a chilling, real and moving outburst now springs to its feet and soul planted in the holocaust of European Jewry, only to be transformed into an overly violent and exuberant scene that should make us clear to what villains we are dealing with In this series.

The "Hunters" plot, which Jordan Peel ("run away") is one of its producers, takes place in New York in 1977 and follows a group of Nazi hunters headed by Meier Offerman, a Holocaust survivor played by El Pacino with a Yiddish accent. This diverse group includes a former actor (Josh Radnor, "How I Met Your Mother"), a pair of Holocaust survivors who are now weapons experts (Carol Kane of "Kimi Schmidt" and Sol Rubink of "Frazier"), a young British nun And tough (Kate Mulvaney), a former Asian-origin soldier (Luis Ozwa Changchin) and black activist (Tiffany Boone). They systematically locate Nazis located on American soil (these are played by, among others, Lina Olin of "The Unbearable Ease of Existence" and Dylan Baker of "The Good Wife") with the aim of avenging the deaths of the six million Jews in the Holocaust. At the same time, the FBI agent (Jerika Hinton, "Gray's Anatomy"), investigating the strange death of an elderly woman, is on a collision course with them.

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A kind of superhero origin story. Logan Lerman and El Pacino, "Hunters" (Photo: Amazon Prime Video)

The Hunters Series, Hunters (Photo: Amazon Frame Video, PR)

Since it is always a privilege to see trampled up bouncing back into their miseries - especially Jews, in our case - most of the time "Hunters" is quite entertaining, even though it suffers from many material failures. She's not as witty as she thinks, the characters in her talk the same, her attempt to raise questions about morality in revenge is bordering on self-righteousness, her episodes are far too long (the first one counts 90 minutes, followed by the four additional chapters sent out - out of ten in total - lasting Hour each). And above all, as the opening scene demonstrates, "Hunters" tries to be a lot of things at once, which detracts from each of the things it tries to be.

The hero through whose eyes we become acquainted with the story is Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman, "Percy Jackson"), an innocent geek who is unaware of his grandmother's involvement in Nazi hunting until circumstances force him to suck himself into it. His grandmother's horrific history, a survivor of Auschwitz, is a catalyst for him, just as the Holocaust is the spirit of the entire "Hunters" sails. This is not just a new Nazi takeover attempt, but a personal matter for most of the protagonists of the series, for every Jew - revenge for the massacre of our people (although the group is not Jewish). And for the regular viewer to line up with the depths of the nightmare, "Hunters" sloping flashbacks to executions in the ghetto, illustrating the Nazi cruelty in the concentration camps and here and now (ie there then, USA 1977). Their use of humans as a game tool. That the series' beautiful opening reflects - a game of chess whose characters are the characters of the series, and in front of the villains, Nazis who seek to establish a fourth Reich.

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The series is not at home. Josh Rednor, "Hunters" (Photo: Amazon Prime Video)

The Hunters, Hunters, Josh Radnor series (Photo: Amazon Prime Video, PR)

But instead of memory and horror being the engine of the plot, they become distractions. Instead of taking the story seriously, they make the series' amusement often seem pointless. "Hunters" repeatedly dances between the atrocities and the Campaign a la Trentino revenge campaign. One moment she can show us a nightmare scene from Auschwitz or Buchenwald, and then soon after that a sex broadcast will be broadcast about the Nazis or hallucination scene of songs and dances on the boardwalk to the sounds of "Staying Alive" (yes, the symbolism of the lyrics here is clear). Tributes and tributes to the pop culture of the era, such as some macabre take on the '70s show.

The various sections of "Hunters" look like a number of separate pieces that were unnaturally melted. The brutality of flashbacks to the Holocaust is shocking but still subdued and respectable. By contrast, the violence of the Seventees is explicit and bloody, rife with clever replicas and reminiscent of the exploitation films that flourished during this decade. In addition, "Hunters" regularly mentions comic book classics. Jonah works in a pamphlet, he and his friends are debating whether it's better to be Batman or Robin, who Meyer calls him "Professor Ex." Everyone keeps telling him that he mentions his grandmother, with all its extraordinary merits, and the series also makes it clear that he has an unusual code cracking code. All so we don't miss the point: we predict a kind of superhero origin story.

The attempt to regularly integrate the Holocaust with the rest does not allow the series to be concocted on one note, thus eliminating the possibility of being anything beyond its total effects. Jewish revenge on the Nazis for a platform of forced violence? "Honest bastards" did much better. Nazis as a comic book story? Magno from "Ex Man" became the fascinating figure who is due to his tragic background as a German Jewish boy during World War II. Holocaust movies? Just choose. As it is at present, the Hunters' dispersion only highlights how much it doesn't match the creations of their shoulders.

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Diverse group. Carol Kane and Saul Rubink, "Hunters" (Photo: Amazon Frame Video)

The Hunters Series, Hunters (Photo: Amazon Frame Video, PR)

Jerika Hinton, "Hunters" (Photo: Amazon Prime Video)

The Hunters Series, Hunters (Photo: Amazon Frame Video, PR)

Lena Olin, "Hunters" (Photo: Amazon Frame Video)

Hunters, Hunters, Lena Olin (Photo: Amazon Frame Video, PR)

"Hunters" rises on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, February 21, 2020.

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