This really didn't know where it was going any more than main character Ben knew what he wanted. The writer was trying to show complexity of character but simply managed to be superficial with so many different changes of mind, beliefs, desires, direction.
The film showed a subset of Israeli society, the lives of rich Askenazis. Not a single Sephardi or Mizrahi was portrayed. The film related their first world problems - therapy sessions, gay guys and surrogacy, gym sessions, gentrification, expensive home improvements. However, the film also, unwittingly, showed the stratification of Israeli society as it has been since the beginning. Askenazis on top and poor African immigrants at the bottom.
The two main characters led insulated lives. Not a single Palestinian interrupted their story, not even a shopkeeper or fruit seller. One shudders to think of what they had done in the army.
The film also let another big secret out. If cops could do what they did to a poor Eritrean in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, how much worse would they be in the occupied territories?
This film needs more than a superficial viewing. The historical and political context needs to be taken into account. As I said, I don't believe for a second that the director was making a subversive film. The deeper glimpses we got of the iniquities of the society were not deliberate. This was pinkwashing again with a few frissons thrown in. I'm not sure why this site describes it as a comedy either. There's nothing comedic about the film, not even darkly.
Watch with open eyes if you have to. Don't be taken in.
The film showed a subset of Israeli society, the lives of rich Askenazis. Not a single Sephardi or Mizrahi was portrayed. The film related their first world problems - therapy sessions, gay guys and surrogacy, gym sessions, gentrification, expensive home improvements. However, the film also, unwittingly, showed the stratification of Israeli society as it has been since the beginning. Askenazis on top and poor African immigrants at the bottom.
The two main characters led insulated lives. Not a single Palestinian interrupted their story, not even a shopkeeper or fruit seller. One shudders to think of what they had done in the army.
The film also let another big secret out. If cops could do what they did to a poor Eritrean in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, how much worse would they be in the occupied territories?
This film needs more than a superficial viewing. The historical and political context needs to be taken into account. As I said, I don't believe for a second that the director was making a subversive film. The deeper glimpses we got of the iniquities of the society were not deliberate. This was pinkwashing again with a few frissons thrown in. I'm not sure why this site describes it as a comedy either. There's nothing comedic about the film, not even darkly.
Watch with open eyes if you have to. Don't be taken in.