Name: A Real Pain
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2024-11-15
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan

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A Real Pain

Parental Communication and Expectations in Relationships

Marcia If I hear from my kids once a month, it's a shock.

Benji Oh, Marcia. Fuck those guys. Man, I wouldn't miss a week.

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A Real Pain

Planning a Quick Escape

Benji We stay moving, we stay light, we stay agile.

David Yeah.

Benji The conductor's gonna come through taking tickets. We tell him we're going to the bathroom.

David The bathroom. Okay.

Benji He gets to the back of the train, he starts heading towards the front looking for stragglers.

David Sorry, we're the stragglers?

Benji Yeah. By the time he gets to the front, the train's gonna be in the station and we're home free.

David This is so fucking stupid.

Benji Man, what's stupid is the corporatization of travel. Ensuring that the rich move around the world, propagate their elitist loins, while the poor stay cut off from society.

David That's great, we can argue ] while they're hauling us off to Siberia.

[[Marxism]

Benji Siberia is in Russia, Dave.

David This is ridiculous. Tickets are probably like twelve bucks.

Benji It's the principle of paying. We shouldn't have to pay for train tickets in Poland. This is our country.

David No, it's not. It was our country. They kicked us out cause they thought we were cheap.

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A Real Pain

Recognizing Potential in a Troubled Individual

David Sorry about him.

Eloge No, no.

Diane What a troubled young man.

Eloge He wants to be good. You can see the spark. Do you know what I mean?

Marcia Yeah. Absolutely, Eloge.

Mark Forgive me if I don't see this magical spark.

Diane Oh, Mark, stop it. He's tormented, for whatever reason.

Mark Okay.

Marcia He's funny and he's charming under all the mishegoss.

Diane I feel bad for him.

Marcia Has he always been like this?

David Yeah. I mean, he's always been, like, up and down, you know? Like, he's sensitive, and he, like, sees people so clearly, you know? But then you say the wrong thing and, like, something switches. Or maybe it's not appropriate to talk about him.

Marcia No.

Diane No, what's not appropriate? You obviously got something going on between you and, uh - well, he's clearly in pain.

David Yeah, but isn't everyone in pain in some way? I mean, look at what happened to our families, look at where we came from. I mean, who isn't - you know, who isn't wrought?

Mark Well, you seem okay.

David I'm not, though. I'm not. I just, like, take a pill for my fuckin OCD, you know, and I jog and I meditate and I go to work in the morning and I, like, come home at the end of the day, and I, like, move forward, you know, because I know that my pain is unexceptional, so I don't feel the need to, like, I don't know, burden everybody with it, you know?

Mark, Eloge Yeah.

David Yeah. God, I'm sorry.

James No, it's all - it's all right, David.

Diane It's okay.

David I'm sorry, I'm ranting, I am just, like... I don't know. Um... Ooh. Sorry, I'm just, like, so fucking exhausted by him sometimes, you know? Like, I... I, I love him and I hate him and I wanna kill him... and I wanna be him, you know? And I feel, like, so stupid around him, you know, because he is so fucking cool and he just does not give a shit. And then... just, like, being here with him is just so fucking baffling to me, you know? It's just baffling, cause it's like: How did this guy come from the survivors of this place, you know? I mean, that your uncle had to sell, like, used furniture to rich assholes or, like, couldn't get into medical school. And that you survived, like, the worst thing to happen on this planet in the last thirty years. And that our grandma survived by a thousand miracles when the entire world was trying to kill her, you know? And I look at him and I just, like, wanna ask him... I just wanna ask him, and I just can't. Like... like, how did the product of a thousand fucking miracles overdose on a bottle of sleeping pills?

[he chokes up; he turns to Mark; he turns to Eloge]

Marcia What?

Diane Sorry, what did you say?

David Yeah, he tried to... yeah, sorry, I probably shouldn't have said anything.

James It's okay. Uh, I'm so - I'm sorry to hear that.

Eloge I'm so sorry. That's - that's very distressing.

Marcia When did this happen?

David Like six - six months ago. My aunt Leah - uh, Benji's mom - found him on the couch. And I know he is so funny and so charming. And you are all gonna walk away with this picture of this amazing man, which he totally is in so many ways. But when I picture him, it is passed out on a ratty basement couch while I am in New York City with my beautiful wife and adorable child, and it just fucking kills me. Sorry. I'm... I'm oversharing. Well, they're back again.

[the sound of live piano emerges from the next room]

Marcia It's him.

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A Real Pain

Finding the Real You Amidst Chaos

Benji You are, like, an awesome guy stuck inside the body of somebody who's always running late. And I gotta, like, fish that fuckin guy outta ya every time I see ya.

David Thank you, I think.

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A Real Pain

Confronting the Impact of Indifference

Marcia David, we numb ourselves to avoid thinking about our impact.

Eloge Ignoring the proverbial slaughterhouse to enjoy the steak, as it were.

Benji Yes, Eloge! Damn, that's a good analogy.

David No, and I get that, I get all that, it just seems like maybe there's, like, a time and a place to grieve, and maybe it's not...

Benji Yo, Dave.

David What?

Benji We're on a fucking Holocaust tour. If now is not the time and place to grieve, to open up, I don't know what to tell you, man.

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