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1. F. Walter on December 16th, 2009 4:05 pm

   TODAYS MUSICALS, SOMEHOW, AREN’T EQUAL TO THOSE OF YEARS GONE BY. A GOOD STORY TO GO WITH THE MUSIC.

2. Anonymous on December 16th, 2009 5:07 pm

   Despite its excellent acting and marvelous soundtrack, this movie is nothing more than a farce intended to make the non-Orthodox Jews of the late 1800/early 1900’s (when the script was written) feel better about their choice. The rabbi is a bufoon, and the Jews of the town are louts. In Tevye’s opening lines, he states that he doesn’t know that reasons for anything he does, thereby ridiculing the Biblical laws the Jews live by. And that’s another thing. Its all presented as “tradition.” It is that, but more importantly, its law, and when Orthodox Jewish kings ruled in Israel it was upheld by the courts. I’m surpirsed he didn’t give his okay for Chava to marry the Russian, and even then, the spin is that he’s being unreasonable. Then there are all the things that are simply wrong, like the rabbi saying that there “technicaly isn’t anything wrong” with men and woman dancing together. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least three laws it violates, and there are probably more. What’s even worse is that most non-Jews relate to the Jewish world entirely in the context of this movie. Whenever something with Jews happens on TV, its always to one of the tunes from the movie. I’ve heard people say “Jews have no idea why they do what they do,” an obvios quote. The truth is, life in pre-WWI Eastern Europe had only superficial similarities to that presented in this movie.

3. Guy De Federicis on December 16th, 2009 8:04 pm

   I was surprised to find the whole Russian Army involved in “Fiddler On The Roof”. Aside from the spirited singing and dancing, the film depicts The Bolshevik Revolution, a Siberian prison camp and generally the whole Russian Army fighting a revolution in expansive production values that at times equal the splendor of such grand movies as “Lawrtence Of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago”. As the song and dance die down, homeless Jews travel in poor caravans searching for a homeland and the Russian Army fights and falls while revolutionaries gain control over the country. This all makes “If I Were A Rich Man” seem a bit trite in response to the enormous historical changes taking place in the movie. It seems the film should have only suggested these worldly details and remained focused on the gentleness and charm of the lead character and his domestic troubles.

4. Harvey Stanger on December 16th, 2009 8:54 pm

   I RECEIVED IT PROMPTLY AND THE SERVICE WAS GREAT. UNFORTUNETLY I HAVENT SEEN THE MOVIE YET BECAUSE I WAS TO BUSY. I AM SURE ITS PERFECT BECAUSE WHENEVER I BOUGHT ANYTHING FROM AMAZON IT ALWAYS WAS

5. Christin L. Roscoe on December 16th, 2009 11:07 pm

   Fast shipping and good product.

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