the first reviewer be right in this movie we see ourselves and snuggle up to the majority and be agreeable and try to stay out of trouble and just try to live our life and and we see how easily these very human trait and so fundamental to the functioning of society and can lead u to become complicit in a great evil . the story be set during world war ii and with the radio and newspaper and movie remind u of hitler attack on jew to underscore the irony of the same kind of violent anti semitism take place in america . at time that seem a little heavy hand to me . it feel more like a play than a movie and but it so think provoke that such quibble mean little . perhaps less trivial be the fact that the entire plot hinge one one little fact that strike me a rather implausible . larry have live an uneventful life until middle age while yet all it take be his begin to wear a pair of spectacle for everyone everyone to and at the first glance and take him for a jew . i willingly suspend disbelief because the plot keep me move forward and but the implausibility do bother me throughout the film . ( and and quite frankly and i do not understand why his wife be also take for a jew . larry seem to think so because her name be hart . and later when he marry her and i do not know why his neighbour assume she be jewish . ) for the first part of the film i wonder if there be go to be element of fantasy . larry unassumingness seem exaggerated and almost to the point of the grotesque . why not call the police on see the rape and even if the attacker be a neighbour . and i think the lighting seem to suggest something slightly unreal the red of the house seem too red and gertrude entrance seem deliberately overlit and generally the colour be almost crayon like in their intensity . in the credit i see that it be film on campbell avenue and wallace avenue in toronto and so i plan to drive down there ( near bloor and dufferin ) today to check out the colour . really positive . it be good to be remind that the clergy at that time be often lead the evil of racism . ( remember how the pope refuse to speak out against hitler and seek only to get protection for the church . it be the same pope and by the way and who and when rome be about to be liberate by american troop and request that the first soldier to enter the city not be black . check your history . ) i do not recall ever hearing of this movie before . that a shame . it certainly be of great interest to every think person and to everyone interested in american history or racism while it one of the clear illustration i have ever see of bertrand russell dictum and do not go with a crowd to do evil .