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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A Jewish American named Jonathan Safran Foer (played by Elijah Wood) enlists the services of a Ukrainian company called Heritage Tours, which specializes in showing wealthy Americans the places where their families came from. Heritage Tours is run by 3 generations of men named Alexander Perchov, but the story focuses on the grandfather and the grandson, named Alex (played by Eugene Hutz). Jonathan (called "Jonfen" by Alex) hopes to find the village of Trachimbrod where his grandfather lived, but the journey will be much longer than he could have imagined. Despite sharing a name with the author, the story is fictitious.The book was written by Jonathan Safran Foer, but we do not hear much from the fictional character of Jonathan. Instead, we read letters from Alex to Jonathan, who includes passages of the book he is writing about his trip with Jonathan and information about his current life, as well as the research that Jonathan is doing on the past of Trachimbrod. The movie deals much less with the history of Trachimbrod and instead focuses on the journey that is taken through Ukraine.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The book and movie take different turns plotwise, but both play with ideas of reality and the fluidity of time, mainly how the past is always with us. Both blend humor, often derived from the stark differences in culture and Alex's odd English, and dark tragedy.The film was directed by Liev Schreiber. | |
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Author Avatar: Jonathan Safran Foer shares his name with the main character, although the book is not a true story | |
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Arc Words: In the book, "I will... I will..." | |
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Ambiguously Gay: In the book, Alex reveals that he is not actually The Casanova he has led us to believe and that when he tells his family he is out at dance clubs, he actually goes to the beach alone (to save money). The women he claims to have met in these clubs are fictional. His questions to Jonathan about whether there are homosexual accountants in America may mean he is in the closet. | |
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