Kill Jewish People Analysis

The Believer Danny is an actor who has his own beliefs and followedthem no matter what anyone thinks. Danny was brought up in a Jewish background but he rebelled against his own religion because he didn’t believe in the beliefs of the Jews. When Danny was a child he began to rebel against his own religion because he felt that the Jews had deserved their punishment in the Holocaust. Danny joined groups that hated the Jews. One of Danny’s goals wasto influence people to hate the Jews as he did. His main goal was to “Kill Jewish People”. He had very strong beliefs from a young age and he wouldn’t listen to anyone who was against what he was doing. As time went on in the movie he started to change when he started to talk to more people. The
point he was trying to make wasn’t demonstrated in the way that he wanted because of the group of people he was surrounded by. One of Danny’s partners went out a rage and started killing Jews which wasn’t the aim of Danny. His intention was to kill certain Jews. The social influences that affected Danny were the fact that whenever a Jewish person was killed everyone was coming up to him and questioning him.
There were reports that he had something to do with many of the killings of the Jews. It seemed that many of his followers were turning their backs on Danny because he didn’t kill any Jews himself. In the movie the reporter that Danny had warned not to publish an article about him lied and published the article, it was bad timing for Danny because he was being accused of being a killer. When he gave a speech about loving the Jews he thought the people that were listening to his speech would agree withbeliefs but he found that not everyone agreed with what he was saying. Everyone thought he was crazy and most of the people in the audience were reporters trying to get a story off him and their goal was to collect evidence to use against him. When watching the movie Danny contradicts himself in the movie because I don’t think he knew what he really wanted. He put himself in a predicament because he had to show the world that he wasn’t the man he used to be anymore because his own people had turned their backs on him because they eventually found out that he was a Jew himself and in their minds he was seen as a
hypocrite. Danny reacted by attempting to detonate the synagogue with his followers and the rabbi inside. His plan was very thought out and at first he seemed to have no problem with carrying out his plan. The day of the planned explosion of the synagogue Danny backed out of his plan because his girlfriend Carla who played major part in his decision was in the synagogue that going to be blown up at seven thirty by Danny. Danny finally came clean and told everyone that there was a bomb in the synagogue and everyone should get out immediately. He didn’t want to be that person that he used to be before but he still couldn’t escape the fact that he was Jewish himself. He stayed in the synagogue and died for the cause that he didn’t want to believe in; ironically he reached his goal of killing a Jew which turned out to be himself. How does the portrayal of Danny in the movie allow us to understand the dynamics of hatred, including the hatred of groups other than our own? By dynamics is meant the way a hating self develops and how it encounters the world. What social-psychological needs are met by hatred? Danny’s portrayal in the movie has allowed to me to understand the dynamics of hatred in many various aspects. In the movie Danny showed that a person can have hatred when they fully understand what they hate and why they hate it. If I’m going to hate a person or a group I have to have a strong dislike of what I hate about that person or that group. Danny was a Jew and he knew imperative information about Jews because he could easily identify with them because of his Jewish descent which it easier for him to hate Jews. Although he had hatred towards the Jews he also respected certain aspects of being Jewish. Danny proved that he had some respect when he was in a synagogue he told his members from his group not to disrespect the torah because of the meaning of the torah and what it meant to him. In the movie Danny showed that hatred can develop into something that can literally become uncontrollable. In the beginning of the movie Danny showed hated the Jews what they stood for and believed in. However his hatred for the Jews started to changed when he also developed a hatred for the public. He began to hate the ordinary public because he was being viewed as something he wasn’t. When Danny had a meeting with a publisher to release his story out to the publisher “You’re a Jew” because of how his mind was indulged with how everything in life has to do with the money aspect. The publisher was basically telling Danny that the money matters which upset Danny because he really didn’t care about the money he just wanted his story to publish for everyone what he thinks. Danny also was upset based on the fact that the publisher didn’t think his story was interesting enough to pay him the money that was reasonable enough. The publisher told Danny that his story wasn’t interesting enough and the topics of Jews weren’t of interest to the public eye. I think in Danny’s eyes he thought if a person only caresabout money he saw them as a Jew and if they didn’t understand what he was trying to say they were a Jew. Apply Hochschild’s ideas about emotion management to the character of Danny and Carla, his girlfriend, and possibly any others that you notice. Danny and Carla’s emotional management was very strange during The Believer. Carla seduces Danny and tells him to smack her and have sex with her. In the beginning, the relationship is sexual, but it becomes more complex when she discovers the Torah in Danny's bedroom and begs him to teach it to her. Supposedly, Carla wants to learn to "know the enemy better," but as her obsession with Danny's teachings increases, so does his own rabbinic role. Yet again, he finds himself in a position where his (still closeted) Jewish heritage enables his anti-Semitic authority, and vice versa. Danny is a man full of rage. He walks around with a cocky attitude and he feels he is superior to everyone. He demonstrates his anger by acting out in public. He harassed an Orthodox Jewish student on a subway. Danny follows the student off of the subway and he intimidates which leads to a violent altercation with the passive student. Danny even yells, "Hit me! Hit me! Please!” I think he acted like this because of how is childhood was. He was raised in a religion in which he was against and didn’t believe in. This created problems for him in school because he would have arguments with his teacher about certain aspects of being Jewish, which in turn made his teacher pick on him in class. I think deep down inside Danny was confused and sad but he didn’t wantto show that side of himself. I believe the only person that cared for him in a sensitive way was his girlfriend Carla. There was a meeting in the movie that involved Danny and anold man who said he watched his son get killed by the police, and he did nothing about it. This infuriated Danny to the point where he started to insult the man. When Danny sees a Jewish person he wants to bully them because he thinks that they’re weak. Danny is a person who seems to have no emotions because he sees that emotions make a person a weak and he hates to see weakness in others, but in reality I don’t think he sees his own weaknesses.