Isaac Feldberg
@isaacfeldberg · 4:54
Review: Is Holocaust deception doc "Misha and the Wolves," on Netflix, a true-crime story or something more complex?
And this isn't an overall positive assessment of Misha and the Wolves. I think it's a fascinating story that the film dives into. It involves so much about human psychosis and artistic deception and survivor's guilt
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:19
I am so going to watch this film. Thank you for the heads up. I want to say two things before I see the film about the need for magical realism, the need for escapism that folds into itself and becomes something that is a survival tool. I can't speak today. I think about Harold and the Purple Crayon, how the little boy drew on the wall and then walk through to find a new world. I think of Walter Mitty
Isaac Feldberg
@isaacfeldberg · 2:15
You'll see, as you watch the documentary, how it is constructed with a real, almost misdirection, I would say, to draw the audience into Misha's story, to question the truth of it, but ultimately not to ask the more interesting questions, including the responsibility of the publisher who elevated Misha's story into this best seller without really looking at who they were talking to and who they were working with and considering the role of Misha's own traumainformed responses and her own insulation from her experiences, whether she was a reliable enough narrator to publish this story as a memoir, without doing that fact checking at the beginning, Misha and the Wolves as a film circles all of these questions, but I think it really does get hung up on presenting it in the punchiest and the most dramatically compelling way in a way that I think does a disservice really to everyone involved
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:50
I think it's a fantastic film to watch for the ride. And if I was filming this and the documentarian for this, I would have taken it a whole other level. Absolutely. And I think that's what I'm left with, but it's also entertainment. They made this entertainment and they hit the lowest common denominator of structure to do that. And that's what you point out as well. I think you're spot on about that
Isaac Feldberg
@isaacfeldberg · 1:32
Deborah, thank you for checking out Misha and the Wolves and leaving your thoughts here. It's great to hear you on this movie, and I'm really happy that watching it was a positive experience for you and that you were swapped up by it