5 - A cop is stabbed in the first scene, the shot is jerky enough that you don't really see the stabbing, but you see the knife and then the cop in an ambulance. We see a murdered body, after the fact. A young hasid is found murdered in his jewelry store storeroom. Gunshots and a hoodlum dying in a car after it crashes through a store front. The Hasidim are represented as an ideal traditional society which has found the path to inner-peace.
Closer examination reveals their communal family values as patriarchal authoritarianism.
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