History WesternAnimation / SederMasochism

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film promotes a common belief among feminist neo-pagans, that all of humanity worshipped some version of the Mother Goddess before Abrahamic religion came about. There's little to no archeological or sociological evidence for this claim, and many of the oldest known religions (Zoroastrianism, for example) follow male creator gods. It is true that some goddesses of the Near East (particularly Asherah and Astarte) were competing with Yahweh and their worshipping cultures enjoyed at least some degree of sexual freedom; this seems to be the main textual implication, but the opening equates these with Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic European "goddess" imagery, which both alludes to the disproven Ancient Matriarchy hypothesis and there frankly isn't any connection between these symbols and the Near Eastern goddesses.

* TheGrimReaper: The Angel of Death looks like this.

* AsLongAsItSoundForeign: The opening throws in the Bulgarian folk song "Kalimankou Denkou" juxtaposed with Matriarchal Goddess imagery. Besides using a fairly recent language as a proxy for "ancient" because the audience is Anglophone, the use doesn't even make a lick of sense since the song is about a man talking about his love. How proto-feminist.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film promotes a common belief among feminist neo-pagans, that all of humanity worshipped some version of the Mother Goddess before Abrahamic religion came about. There's little to no archeological or sociological evidence for this claim, and many of the oldest known religions (Zoroastrianism, for example) follow male creator gods.

* InMemoriam: The film is dedicated to Nina's father, Hiram Paley, who died in 2011.

* PosthumousCredit: Hiram Paley, who voiced God, died in 2011.

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Based on UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} in a similar way ''Sita'' was on UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, the film retells the story of the Exodus from ''Literature/TheBible'' through [[JukeboxMusical pre-existing]] musical numbers, framed by a narration about a traditional ''seder'' dinner that commemorates Moses leading out the Hebrew people from Egypt. The story is intersected with Nina Paley interviewing her father Hiram Paley about his experiences as a Jewish man. In these scenes, Hiram is visualized as a GrandpaGod and Nina as a sacrificial goat. The film also has a heavy [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] theme, showing the struggle of a Mother Goddess getting gradually replaced by the male and extremely patriarchal Abrahamic God.

* GodIsLoveSongs: There are two songs in the film that are originally simple love songs, but are re-contextualized as religious songs. "Woman" by Music/JohnLennon becomes an ode to the Mother Goddess (and the Golden Calf idol representing her), and "The Things We Do For Love" by Music/TenCc is now describing the complicated relationship between Jewish people and their God.

Based on UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} in a similar way ''Sita'' was on UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, the film retells the story of the Exodus from ''Literature/TheBible'' through [[JukeboxMusical pre-existing]] musical numbers, framed by a narration about a traditional ''seder'' dinner that commemorates Moses leading out the Hebrew people from Egypt. The story is intersected with Nina Paley interviewing her father Hiram Paley about his experiences as a Jewish man. In these scenes, Hiram is visualized as a GrandpaGod and Nina as a sacrificial goat. The film also has a heavy [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] theme, showing the struggle of a Mother Goddess getting gradually replaced by a male God.

Based on UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} in a similar way ''Sita'' was on UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, the film retells the story of the Exodus from ''Literature/TheBible'' through musical numbers, framed by a narration about a traditional ''seder'' dinner that commemorates Moses leading out the Hebrew people from Egypt. The story is intersected with Nina Paley interviewing her father Hiram Paley about his experiences as a Jewish man. In these scenes, Hiram is visualized as a GrandpaGod and Nina as a sacrificial goat. The film also has a heavy [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] theme, showing the struggle of a Mother Goddess getting gradually replaced by a male God.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The film makes heavy use of this, using cheerful musical numbers while horrifying scenes happen on-screen.
* StrawMisogynist: The film paints Judaism as a heavily patriarchal religion. In one scene Moses has an angry rampage destroying female idols and killing their worshippers.

Based on UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} in a similar way ''Sita'' was on UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, the film retells the story of the Exodus from ''Literature/TheBible'' through musical numbers, framed by a narration about a traditional ''seder'' dinner that commemorates Moses leading out the Hebrew people from Egypt. The story is intersected with Nina Paley interviewing her father Hiram Paley about his experiences as a Jewish man. In these scenes, Hiram is visualized as a GrandfatherGod and Nina as a sacrificial goat. The film also has a heavy [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} feminist]] theme, showing the struggle of a Mother Goddess getting gradually replaced by a male God.

The film was created over the course of six years, finally getting completed in 2018. The first completed scene, "This Land Is Mine", was uploaded to Website/YouTube in 2012, and became a viral video in 2014 thanks to heavily reflecting on the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict.

* GrandfatherGod: Hiram, Nina's father looks like this.