A Review of Live and Become (Schlomo's Odyssey). (2008). Written by Radu Mihaileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc. Directed by Radu Mihaileanu

It was not hard to see that an archetypal image had triggered the awful conflagration that swept over Los Angeles. Indeed, for anyone owning a television set, it was not hard to see the image and to feel that it was the wrong archetype for this nation. A black man was supposed to lie face to the ground, his entire body flat against the ground. Should he attempt in any way to rise, police with clubs would beat him until he was again knocked flat, and when he later complained about such treatment, the law would side with the police, not him. It seems faintly obscene to psychologize in the face of such pain, and the painful events the image of it has triggered, and yet the psychological questions come at such collective moments, along with the nerve to answer.