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"Lock Time": Returns to the Battlefield | Israel today

2020-11-03T09:38:46.295Z


| TVIt is possible to point out mistakes and inaccuracies in "Lock Time" without end, but the most important thing the series manages to convey: the smell of the warriors' fear, the fear of dying The viewer feels the battlefield. "Lock time" Photography:  A mighty rose The so-talked-about series of Here 11, "Lock Hour" came last night (Monday) almost halfway through, and it seems like the amount


It is possible to point out mistakes and inaccuracies in "Lock Time" without end, but the most important thing the series manages to convey: the smell of the warriors' fear, the fear of dying

  • The viewer feels the battlefield.

    "Lock time"

    Photography: 

    A mighty rose

The so-talked-about series of Here 11, "Lock Hour" came last night (Monday) almost halfway through, and it seems like the amount of complaints about it is the same as the amount of compliments it received.

Indeed, it is not without errors and with that there is no debate, but despite the criticism that made us a lot of noise last week, "Lock Hour" does the job - and with great success.

It is true that especially in the case of the Yom Kippur War - reality surpassed all imagination.

There is no shortage of chilling stories from the battlefields, so it is not so clear the creators' desire to burden the plot with imaginary additions that only weigh on her, an aging writer / journalist style, a young warrior and a Moroccan-speaking black panther, or an officer who came to save her beloved from the inferno.

It's also true that the series suffers from some annoying, not to say hurtful, inaccuracies, in those who not only watched the bloody battles from the armchair in the living room, but actually experienced them firsthand and were burned into their souls.

For them the experience on screen does not reflect the experience in reality, and the anger can be understood.

It can also be said that contrary to expectations from a brutal battlefield, especially one that characterized the early days of that war, the visual sense of war, on which the special effects are entrusted, does not reach the ankles of the intensity of various war films like "Save Private Ryan", "Rage (By Brad Pitt) or the mini-series "Brothers in Arms" and "Pacific," and the urge to put Daphne the officer in a tank top condition is jarring, as if there is no further justification for her character.

Yes, everything is true.

Still, this is the first series that touches on the exposed nerves of the Doomsday War, emphasizing the warrior echelon who felt, at least for the first few days, alone in the battle against the Syrian giant rushing towards him.

Beyond this fact, as of the fourth episode, and despite all the criticism, "Lock Hour" faithfully fulfills its commitment to two key factors - the Warriors and the Scouts.

Some critics of the series, including in this stage, have argued against it that it is doing the warriors an injustice by producing a defeatist and pacifist narrative and some have even "accused" it of leftism.

In my opinion, those critics should clean their glasses, because the plot is far from that and reflects quite a bit of the heroism of the forces.

Examples?

The fighting spirit of the commander of the Hermon outpost Mazuz, the great efforts of Corporal Malachi to reach his comrades in crooked ways (and full of vomiting), the brotherhood of fighters between Marco and his commander Caspi who just aimed a weapon and that Caspi's bold decision to rescue a pilot whose plane was hijacked him.

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Although I am not a veteran fighting fox, not a great fighter, and ashes at the feet of all those fighters in the Yom Kippur War (and other Israeli wars), but as someone who fought in the Gaza Strip during the second intifada and returned in Operation Eitan, I can testify that the series certainly brought me back to the chaos in the field The battle, reminding me of the smell of fear of the warriors that accompanies it.

The fear of dying.

The spectators, most of whom were not in that hell that took over the Golan Heights in the fall of '73, get straight into the vein the chilling and painful feelings of the warriors, the smiling look at the revered commander, who quickly turns into a terrified face in the face of being shot in the head. In a powerful enemy, and the dilemmas and the need to improvise under tremendous pressure conditions, an ability that is sometimes a thin line between life and death.

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Ultimately the real goal of the series and its creators, and this is what it achieves successfully, is that we will enter the warriors' heads for a few hours and feel, if only slightly, what it is like to protect an entire country from destruction with your body.

Source: israelhayom

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