A low-key family situation tat tightly and subtly turns into a high voltage plot-build-up. It’s a family drama where the central figure – Rashi - a cop - implodes with each day bringing his whoel world down on all fronts. It is hard to believe that Rashi is played by a non-actor, Eran Naim the lead role.
He is utterly believable as he delivers his lines that coil around his wife and her 13-year-old daughter’s lives like a cobra who can’t let go. He masterfully plays a controlling sensitive macho cop, father and husband with such suffocating energy that in the end, he loses everything dear to him His life unravels, starting with being accused of sexual impropriety when doing a strip search on a young male student - having hauled him into the station, just because he felt challenged by the young man’s non-compliance to do as asked when Rashi picks on him in the park.
Family life
is portrayed in this film as a fragile entity ripe with power struggles. His wife is undergoing IV
treatments but a fetus in her womb does
not grow. This foreshadows the break-down that marks his life and negatively affects
others he loves.
The acting ensemble
is brilliant. His step-daughter, played by Stav Potay was also a force to reckon
with in her role as a rebellious teen. He puts an end to her fun all the time. He puts an end to more than one could ever imagine. The climax explodes in the last scene.
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