Despite the tragic story, the need for human understanding among people, and the nicely done film, "Twist of Faith," in the end, goes against every principle of Orthodox Judaism. While this shall seem bigoted to others, we must remember that this is a fact of life. We cannot distort the truth.
The film did show that even the most religious of people can have questions of faith when tragedy strikes. The story of a cantor whose wife and 3 children were shot dead on a city bus by a lunatic certainly meets that criteria. We don't know how anyone could survive such tragedy.
Fleeing to the south and living with a black family, the story shows tremendous human understanding and is to be praised for that. It's just the very end that Orthodox Jews would never accept. By the way, at least cast the mother of the cantor as someone looking Jewish. The woman who played the part was typically Irish looking to me.
The film did show that even the most religious of people can have questions of faith when tragedy strikes. The story of a cantor whose wife and 3 children were shot dead on a city bus by a lunatic certainly meets that criteria. We don't know how anyone could survive such tragedy.
Fleeing to the south and living with a black family, the story shows tremendous human understanding and is to be praised for that. It's just the very end that Orthodox Jews would never accept. By the way, at least cast the mother of the cantor as someone looking Jewish. The woman who played the part was typically Irish looking to me.