A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

