I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.

Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.

In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.

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