In the PR photo that circulated before the series "Hanshi" aired on HOT, Hanshi, a young ultra-Orthodox American woman, is seen kneeling at the foot of an El Al plane, and instead of kissing the soil of the Holy Land, she sticks out her disgusting tongue and licks it while looking at us, which says "Kelto How funny I am" and "This is how you do it in sex?". In this case, it's a picture worth a thousand words - or a thousand words that will sum up this series in one word: worth.
At the end of the day, cringe and sexual fantasies are the essence of this work, but the surprising dish on the plate includes so much more: a successful satire on the ultra-Orthodox society that suppresses female sexuality, on the religious-nationalist society that enhances patriotism, and on our national hobby of automatically labeling each other This, including thinking that an ultra-Orthodox creator would not produce a great comedy from her laptop.
doing it right?
"Hanshi", photo: Ohed Romano and HOT
"Hanshi" is not perfect, but it is sharply written and surprisingly comical - not a genre that a secularist like me thought would come from an ultra-Orthodox author.
How did Hanan ben Ari say?
"Don't put me in any cage."
And really - no cage can contain this strange animal.
"Hanshi" brings to the screen an original Shatanz: American ultra-Orthodox with saber bravado, the hornyness of a Tel Avivian teenager and Kanye West's embarrassing moments in "Yad Vashem".
In the beginning, even before I tried to understand who she is as a character, what her motivations are and what she is already capable of, to make fun or to annoy, the effort was in trying to place a sexually unsatisfied ultra-Orthodox young woman in the landscape of familiar characters - and this is already good news.
What Israel needs.
From "Hanshi", photo: Vared Adir and HOT
Because Hanshi is something we haven't seen, and within the limitations of the tired material of Israeli series revolving around ultra-orthodox-suffocating-women, it's a comedy that doesn't just come out of the box - it kicks the hell out of it.
The character she apparently created in her character Aliza Hanovitch, who grew up in the ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, is a bombshell of tactlessness loaded with comic timing, something between Elaine from "Seinfeld" and any God-fearing imitation played by Gia Baer Gurevich in "Wonderful Country".
Thank God that "Khanshi" did not come into the world to tell us the plot of "The Rebel" again.
She is a horny young woman, whose suffocating ultra-Orthodox is looking to replace with strangulation games - not with a hesitant journey full of guilt.
With this comic base she tries, and mostly succeeds, in creating an attachment to her and her relationships with the Puritan environment.
Her close friend and her roommates can't live with her or without her, the men she meets along the way are drawn to the sexual freedom she exudes, and all she has to do is embarrass herself so we can laugh a little.
Not something we've seen.
From "Hanshi", photo: Vared Adir and HOT
Whether the timing is coincidental or not, and maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, "Khanshi" is exactly what the State of Israel needs these days: in the videos released just yesterday on the Knesset channel, the conflicts we will deal with in the next four years - darkness versus light, extremism versus permissiveness, and ultra-Orthodox versus ultra-Orthodox for the future of " Tiv Ta'am".
When MK Avi Maoz spoke in plenary about Hasmoneans and Greeks, MK Michal Shir decided that he was talking about her and that she was not Jewish enough in his eyes.
In another event, MK Shlomo Krai caused a riot because everyone thought he was mocking another Knesset member for being gay.
There is no doubt, we need some kind of hanshi who will lighten things up a bit, laugh at all the ugly and wretched things that surround us and get horny for all of us.
If we don't close the gap, at least we'll feel a little more attractive.
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