A Real Pain is one of the films nominated for the 2025 Oscar Awards. This film, starring, written, and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, has two nominations in the categories of Best Original Script for Eisenberg and Best Cast Actor for Kieran Culkin.
Of these two Oscars nominations, the one that A Real Pain is likely to win is that of Culkin, who already took the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Awards. The tendency is that in these categories of action, the film is nominated in the highest category.
The nominations that it deserved
This is not the case of To Real Pain, which seems to be a very serious mistake of the academy because, certainly, this Eisenberg movie deserved more a space among the 10 nominees that other titles as I’M Still Here, Nickel Boys And, of course, Emilia Pérez (The most nominated film of this edition).
Moreover, we firmly believe that the same Jesse Eisenberg had more deserved Oscar nomination as best director that James Mangold by A Complete Unknown (A great movie, there is no doubt, but in the end it is a biopic that does not risk anything) and Jacques Audiard (For what we already know about).
Why did these Oscar nominations deserve? Because To Real Pain is an extremely simple film in its structure, but extremely complex in the history and development of characters. And that’s what the cinema is about, to tell stories that have a lot of layers with or without the need for a show.
A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg presents us to The cousins ​​David and Benki Kaplan, who look at the airport because they are going to make a trip to Poland, the country of origin of his newly deceased grandmother, who in turn survived the Holocaust and moved to the United States.
The cousins They were very close in their childhood, but over time they separated, creating different personalities. On the one hand, David is a family father dedicated to his work, introverted and socially reserved it shows uncomfortable all the time. While, Benji is a person who shines all the time, speaks, sees people … But at the same time, he suffers when no one sees it.
All this is revealed to us while They perform a holocaust tour to recognize the origins of their ancestors. Its relationship is complicated but beautiful, and makes us question, all the time, if We must be happy to our ancestors, especially those who escaped suffering so that we are here.