This week, 12 Assi Ezer and Albert Escola starred on the Rainbow screen, in a new documentary called "There is no such love anymore."
The film that accompanied them through the surrogacy process, and their journey on the path to becoming a father and father.
And yet it was a photogenic and important film for a very complex subject.
We saw there the newly formed family almost by chance sitting around a table at dinner (you can spend more on them than junk food in cardboard packages) and together they created the new life of the sweet Alex and up to 120.
In this movie everything was accurate: Asi's tears, Albert's legitimate dilemmas, the girl's crying during the meal, and there were not even commercials that interrupted the beauty for an entire hour.
What did we not see there?
We have not seen the tedious process, the insane expenses involved (more than half a million shekels), the accompanying dilemmas such as choosing an egg donor and surrogate, the couples who give up on the way, the complex procedure back to Israel, nor have we heard of those couples who invest their whole lives and money , And at the end of the process we return to Israel empty-handed, not about us and not knowing.
The presence of the community on the small screen has gone through quite a few incarnations.
From Johnny in "Ramat Aviv III", through Mickey Boganim in the commercial break and Leon Schneidrovsky in the first season of "Big Brother", to Asi Ezer - a key talent on the successful channel in the country.
It's time to also mention the movie Ezer's Out of the Closet that aired in the past, and I personally left my parents a copy of his DVD in the mailbox, at a time when I was disconnected due to being gay.
The presence of the community on the small screen has reached its peak.
It was a film that does not reflect reality, but in a world where the Supreme Court of the most powerful country in the world rules against the right to abortion, nothing is clear.
Not the relationship between Matan and Guy in "Khatunmi," nor the scene that aired on the "90s" series, in which Rabbi Meir receives his son Mordi after he comes out of the closet and tells him that he is proud of him.
Therefore, even when we are presented with only one side, we need to remember and remind every day anew that nothing is taken for granted and such a film is blessed.
Erans@israelhayom.co.il
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