Ushpizin

The movie, Ushpizin, is a Israeli film where it was filmed in the Jerusalem, Israel. This movie is based on one Orthodox Jewish married couple, Moshe and Mali Bellanga who are poor and an infertile couple in the Breslov community in Jerusalem. Without no money to prepare for the upcoming Sukkoth which is one of the joyful Jewish holiday in the fall, they pray much for their financial help. After an agony prayer, they received an unexpected money 1000 dollars that both of them are greatly pleased with this miracle on the eve of the Jewish holiday. They make plans for Sukkah which is a temporary shelter covered in natural materials like a gazebo and used for serving special meals during the Jewish festival of Sukkoth. Meanwhile, the unexpected arrival of two people, Eliahu and Yosef, Moshe is surprised that he thought the Lord has sent him as guests as another miracle. The two friends who escape from the prison, they start staying their house with no longer unwelcome and unacceptance by drinking, smoking, playing loud music. After telling a story in order to get rid of the
It is a kind of comedy and presents a lesson or view of how strong and complete a person’s faith can be, how every problem we encounter is a test of out faith. To surprise me, the Jewish couple also has a hope for a life of having a child, eating delicious meals, owning a house, enjoying alcohol and smoking with a mundane life as same with me. I thought Orthodox Jewish has strong traditional faith with strict obligation of the Jewish law with not showing those aspects of life. However, this movie vividly depicts the community of people in the Orthodox Jewish with ordinary living, drinking, smoking, dancing, arguing, listening to popular music, and confronting with their faith. With a fable-like movie, Ushpizin is a completely unique movie that I have ever