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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dictionary definition of trauma is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Severe emotional shock and pain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused by an extremely\Nupsetting experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no set way to process trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in "Unorthodox," we see how\Ntwo different communities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one in Berlin, and another in\NBrooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cope with the tragedies\Nthat have shaped them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in turn, we learn ways\Nto deal with our trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Brooklyn, trauma forms\N19 year old Esty's,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her community's,\Nidentity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The action follows\Nthe secretive Satmar community
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Hasidic Jews.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Established by a rabbi\Nwho had fled Satu Mare,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in present-day Romania,\Nduring the Holocaust.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Satmar community\Ndoes not mix with others.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In "Unorthodox,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the head of the\Nsex-segregated table,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Pesach dinner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an annual commemoration\Nof the Jews who escaped slavery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ancient Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty's grandfather\Ngives his reasons why.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Grandfather] We tell ourselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story of Passover
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to remind us of\Nour suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] The show celebrates
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the strong bonds\Nof family and tradition,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within Esty's community,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where religious customs \Nand prayers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can take place safely,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while deadly attacks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on synagogues, and \Nother venues frequented by Jews,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rise, across the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This community defies\Nanti-Semitism, by living devoutly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also see, in this scene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how Satmar Jews \Ndraw on past trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make members scared\Nof the big, bad outside.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Grandfather] When we trusted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our friends and neighbors,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God punished us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we forget who we are,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we invite God's wrath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] The Holocaust
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused PTSD in its survivors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its impact lives on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Auschwitz survivor,\Nchemist, and writer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Primo Levi puts it:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Auschwitz is outside of us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is all around us,\Nin the air.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The plague has died away,\Nbut the infection still lingers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would be foolish\Nto deny it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This generational trauma\Ngrows from the roots
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Esty's family tree,\Nand shapes Esty's personal identity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is discouraged from\Nexploring passions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that contradict\Nthe community's values.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her piano lessons\Nare so frowned upon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she must take them \Nin secret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her teacher,\NVivian Dropkin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is derided as 'a shiksa,'\Nor non-Jew.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But interestingly,\Nthough the show never mentions it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dropkin is a secular Jew.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite her faith, her choices\Nare not Jewish enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Esty's devout community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many Orthodox Jews\Nbelieve that the way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to undo the trauma\Nof the Holocaust,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to repopulate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2013 research for\Nthe Pew Center
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shows that Orthodox Jews\Nhave a birth rate of 4.1,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to the U. S.\Nnational average of 1.8.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty totally believes\Nwhat she's been taught to believe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later insisting,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We are rebuilding\Nthe six million lost."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Grandmother] So many lost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, soon, you'll have\Nchildren of your own.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Six million\Nis no small sum.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, alongside the housework\Nneeded to keep her home tidy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her husband, Yanky Shapiro,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well fed and in perfectly\Nironed suits,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty's job is to have\Nas many children as possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Woman] You will have no leverage\Nin this marriage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until there is a baby.\NUnderstand me?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] She is told that sex\Nwill give her husband pleasure,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, in turn, will give her\Nexactly what she wants:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what she has been told she wants...\Na baby.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem with this way\Nof dealing with trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we see it through Esty's eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is, it creates \Na domino effect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a field of academic study
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called epigenetics,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which deals with the concept
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of trans-generational trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, the idea that trauma\Ncan be inherited.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some study suggests that DNA
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changes in response\Nto horrifying experiences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that, then, passes\Ndown generations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether through epigenetics \Nor not,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in "Unorthodox," traumatized parents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unintentionally traumatize\Ntheir children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty's grandparents are still,\Nunderstandably,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bereft by the Holocaust.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their son, Mordecai,\Nis mentally unwell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for Leah, her trauma \Ncomes, mainly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from not quite fitting the mold\Nthat's been set for her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty is tarred by her parents' pain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that she is a bride herself,\Nshe finds the rules troublesome.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Mrs. Shapiro] We shouldn't have agreed\Nto this marriage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yanky Shapiro] Mommy, please!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Mrs. Shapiro] The apple doesn't fall\Nfar from the tree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] When Esty tries\Nto argue the case
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for her to be pleasured,\Nrather than traumatized in bed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using scripture as evidence\Nof God's will for it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she is shut down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yanky Shapiro] Women are not \Nallowed to read the Talmud!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] This text is for men only,\Nnot for women's eyes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to something known as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Kavod Hatzibur," or the dignity\Nof the community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty's story shows how\Nsocially restrictive responses to trauma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often unfairly muzzle women.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty can't get away with half\Nof what her cousin, Moishe, can.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moishe is a thief, a liar, \Nan aggressive lout,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no consideration\Nfor others.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, his behavior seems rooted\NIn self-loathing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His moral decay,\Nhis own trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is catching up with him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he realizes, he has neither
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the commitment of one community,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor the tools of another.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Moishe cackles laughing.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Meanwhile, Yanky,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a saint next to Moishe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ends up meting out trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through his childishly ignorant\Ncommitment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maintaining his community,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by any means available.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Brooklyn, we see how trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sadly, sometimes begets\Nmore trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Esty's mom puts it:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Leah] So much damage \Ndone in Brooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the name of God.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the rules, all the gossip.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No wonder Esty can't stand it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Berlin, meanwhile,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a very different way\Nof dealing with trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Classical music.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Unorthodox" presents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adolf Hitler's former stronghold
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a liberal, diverse idyll,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people, especially the young,\Ncan do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they want, when they want,\Nwith whom they want.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once the epicenter of suffering,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Berlin counters its past trauma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by celebrating joy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reclaiming some of its character
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Nazis tried to extinguish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the city
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that once saw the Golden 1920s\Nof the Weimar Republic,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Marlene Dietrich\Nrose to fame,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cabaret was popular entertainment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Bauhaus art movement\Nwas founded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This social liberalism\Ncomes across in public displays
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of affection, that the naive\Nand modest Esty is struck by.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is used to a traumatic sex life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that only ever happened in private,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet was discussed so publicly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Berlin, the opposite is true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is because pleasure,\Nrather than procreation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the goal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty begins to realize
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the world is not\Nas black and white
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she has been taught.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man] You could try to rescue\NRobert's attempt at a salad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] The city's physical spaces
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are examples of how traumatic sites\Ncan be reclaimed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Esty's first excursion\Nwith her new friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she ventures upon what is,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to her community back in Brooklyn,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man] When the Berlin Wall was up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,East German guards shot anyone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who tried to swim across this lake\Nto freedom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Esty] And now?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man] Now, you can swim\Nas far as you like.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] It might be\Nthe location of trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not the source\Nof trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unlike the Mikvah that \Nblessed Esty,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a secular body of water\Ncannot bless, or condemn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only people can.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, some people\Nwill never be able to find joy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same waters Hitler \Ngazed across,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he decided to end\Nmillions of Jews' lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in this scene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty has \Nan opportunity to help
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begin her new life,\Nwithin its waters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty removes her wig\Nin this lake,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a more extreme version\Nof the breakup haircut.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the shorn hair\Nbeneath it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the imposition of a sect
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sees women's hair\Nas so tempting to men
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it must be shaved off,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is also an uncanny\Nand unintended reminder
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the ways in which\NEsty's ancestors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were dehumanized\Nby the Nazis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their heads shaved\Nin the concentration camps.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Esty panting.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Without this wig,\Nshe can float in the water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free to forget her trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the rules and regulations\Nthat led to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lake scene proves how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expression of individual freedoms
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can pay tribute to past generations\Nwho were once restricted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By swimming in the waters,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty and her friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do what many from \Nprevious generations could not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joy is, for them, a far more useful
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tool of remembrance,\Nthan guilt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man] A lake is just a lake.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Esty's new friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prove that trauma comes\Nin many forms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each carries with them\Ntheir own difficult histories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some come from war-torn countries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have lost loved ones,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or grew up gay\Nin homophobic countries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The friction between\NEsty and Yael hinges
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on how their shared trauma\Nis dealt with so differently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Esty] My grandparents\Nlost their whole families
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the camps.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yael] So did half of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, we are too busy\Ndefending our present,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be sentimental \Nabout our past.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Both Jewish,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty and Yael's ancestors\Nmay have very well died
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside each other \Nin the death camps,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but their responses\Nto this trauma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn't be more different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yael used music\Nas an escape from military duty,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its inevitable traumas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With her violin in hand,\Nshe expresses herself as she chooses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty quickly learns that,\Nin Berlin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men and women,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,secular Jews,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims, Christians,\Nand others
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,play music together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only rules \Nare that they turn up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stay focused, and \Ncollaborate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty no longer\Nmuffles her own screams,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but unleashes her pain\Nand trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using the creativity\Nshe has always longed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to wield.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using Yael's unfiltered freedom\Nas a template,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Esty finally expresses \Nher personal identity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Singing]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] The Berliners\Nof "Unorthodox"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,haven't forgotten their trauma,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that of the city\Nthey live in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have found ways\Nto deal with it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reclaiming Hitler's land\Nfor their own, joyful purposes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wanting personal freedoms\Nfor everyone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially women.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using creativity as a conduit\Nto exorcise their trauma.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not to say\NBrooklyn is totally opposite.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like everything else in the show,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the costumes to the sets,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Unorthodox" handles trauma\Nsensitively and beautifully.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one is outright good,\Nor outright evil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people struggle in Berlin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same way others thrive\Nin Brooklyn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human trauma\Nis complex and individual,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not black and white.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In "Unorthodox," we see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the classic tale of a Jew\Nescaping European trauma
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and captivity, in reverse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Berlin, Esty discovers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that undoing trauma\Ncan be as simple
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as going for a swim,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communicating with outsiders,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and singing her heart out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All on her own terms,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in her own time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Soft music.]