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    The film Jakob the Liar is set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi Germany. It follows Jakob Heym, a pancake vendor who spreads false hope by telling people he hears news on the radio that the German army is retreating. This gives the Jewish community a brief reprieve from their despair. In reality, the Nazis continue to persecute and kill Jews. The film poses the question of whether false hope is better than facing dark realities, and shows how storytelling can both help and harm people during difficult times. It aims to honor Holocaust victims without trivializing the horrors they endured.

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    The film Jakob the Liar is set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi Germany. It follows Jakob Heym, a pancake vendor who spreads false hope by telling people he hears news on the radio that the German army is retreating. This gives the Jewish community a brief reprieve from their despair. In reality, the Nazis continue to persecute and kill Jews. The film poses the question of whether false hope is better than facing dark realities, and shows how storytelling can both help and harm people during difficult times. It aims to honor Holocaust victims without trivializing the horrors they endured.

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    The film Jakob the Liar is set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi Germany. It follows Jakob Heym, a pancake vendor who spreads false hope by telling people he hears news on the radio that the German army is retreating. This gives the Jewish community a brief reprieve from their despair. In reality, the Nazis continue to persecute and kill Jews. The film poses the question of whether false hope is better than facing dark realities, and shows how storytelling can both help and harm people during difficult times. It aims to honor Holocaust victims without trivializing the horrors they endured.

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    DE MESA, Princess Aleya B.

    Activity 7: Reflection Paper

    Jakob the liar is a drama film directed by Peter Kassovitz. Jacob Heym was portrayed by
    Rabin Williams, in the movie he is a pancake vendor who accidentally overheard a radio news
    suggesting that the army is successfully advancing on a German force.
    This film explains how disappointment can sometimes be used for a good reason. The
    emphasis here, however, is history as an old Jewish survival type. Fanciful Jakob's truth-telling
    reduces the suicide of the Jewish Community and thus relieves the fatalistic feelings from her
    disease, the ten-year - old girl who sleeps under him, through her barber friend Kowalski
    Jakob's mythical radio broadcasting to her Lina. An old theater troupe, Frankfurter is outraged
    and Kirschbaum is encouraged by a doctor who sacrifices himself for the party at last. Jakob the
    Liar embraces optimism as part of the scaffolding of human life.
    This is a tragic story true to the Holocaust horror, with some amusing moments. Many
    characters die from Nazi arms or in their own desperate hands. But the film poses one
    fundamental question behind the story: "Are people better off from dark realities or false
    hope? That's how good filmmaking leaves us with a good question to keep talking in this movie,
    as well as our own beliefs and for some good cases, it can affect and have a positive effect on
    us. The moral issues I’ve noticed in the movie are the following:

     To make people believe and follow their hopes in the ghetto, Jacob deceives them that
    in darkness there's still light and hope.
     The assassination of the Jews, without fair judgment.
     The death rate of Jews due to suicide is an indication of an immoral way of committing
    suicide.
     The news that spread without Jakob's proper consent violates his moral and privacy
    space and Jakob's reputation will be under risk.
     Removal of the freedom of Judas to live freely.
     It seems that even on the streets they normalize killing.
     They don't treat the Jews the same way as others.
     They do not respect the hard work of the Jews and they are not being compensated.
    And I'm glad that Williams and the company don't plan to sugar-coat this terrible time in their
    history by wrapping stuff up "happily" from Hollywood. They've chosen to show respect for
    those who suffered terrifying persecution and not risk trivially trivializing the contents that
    could make audiences both contemplatively and nervous. If only we could see a little more
    appreciation for a loving God who was not idle, but a source of power to many Jews in the
    midst of all.

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