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nymorg77's recommendation

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Gosling plays a confused, intellectual, self-loathing Jew who becomes, what else, a skinhead. Hunh?! Yeah. Crazy. A crazy good movie. (via Amazon)

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cath's recommendation

Gritty, gripping and an utterly magnetic turn by Ryan Gosling (who has done nothing but the highest quality work since this film introduced him).

Gosling plays Danny Balint, a neo-nazi skinhead who is living an impossibly contradictory life because he's also a Jew. Violent, articulate and terrifyingly charismatic, Balint's only saving grace (weakness?) is what drives his hatred - his Judaism. This isn't an easy film and saying that is a vast understatement. It's brutally violent, frightening but also important.