Borders on Insensitive

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2019)

One thing that bothers me about this film, and that I have a hard time getting over, is the casting of Thomasin McKenzie as the sole Jewish character. Yes, the Nazis are portrayed as stupid, ignorant, and buffoons, but their ugly caricatures of Jews (rats, horns, scales, evil, etc.) are relentless. Yes, of course, the Jewish character in the film is the complete opposite of the caricatures; she's beautiful, strong, sensitive, loving.
But my issue is this: Thomasin is not Jewish! She's a New Zealander of Anglo-Celtic origin. She doesn't even look remotely Jewish, outside of her brown hair. Couldn't they have cast a Jewish actress for the role of the ONLY Jewish character in the film? People still make fun of old westerns where they cast white guys as Native Americans. It just feels insensitive, dismissive, disrespectful, wrong.