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Opinion | Inbal Perlmutter: The secret is solidarity | Israel Hayom

2023-05-29T03:31:48.329Z

Highlights: "Inbal Perlmutter - If It's Over" won the Docaviv Festival in Israel. Documentary shows how people around the singer were unaware of her addiction. It's sad, because it allows everyone who enjoys her talent and love to come out perfectly fine with the tragedy. It legitimizes everyone who is around talented and suffering people to continue to bond with the talent, but completely remove responsibility for the talent and the success that comes with it. It must be said with regret: some people sooner or later the drug will overwhelm them.


Do you benefit from someone's talent and love? There is no way you do not know that the man is suffering or hurting others. This applies both in self-destruction and in cases of violence - there is no "I didn't know"


Inbal Perlmutter lived and died alone. Even when there were people around her, no one noticed her severe addiction. Somehow she managed to fool everyone. In her managers, in her fellow creators, even in her successful partner Corinne Allal.

That doesn't make sense, certainly not when it comes to a young addicted girl. But when you watch the film "Inbal Perlmutter - If It's Over", created by Abigail Sperber and Sharon Luzon and which won the Docaviv Festival - this is the message that comes from the interviewees. You hear those who were supposed to be closest to her, and from their words you understand that none of them knew or were her partners in drug use. Perlmutter apparently always did it alone, and kept her secret well.

One may be tempted to believe the testimonies, and one may also think that maybe, but only maybe, too many people tell a story to the camera behind which there is no one to ask a simple question: "How can it be that you have lived with a girl for many years and you do not see?"

It's sad, because it allows everyone who enjoys Perlmutter's talent and love to come out perfectly fine with the terrible tragedy of a young woman, a creator with grace, who experienced a shaky childhood that served as a platform for a suicidal and destructive process of growing up. It legitimizes everyone who is around talented and suffering people to continue to bond with the talent, but completely remove responsibility for everything that comes with the talent and the success that comes with it.

There is something almost immoral about the way everyone around her allows himself to place all the responsibility on Perlmutter herself. She hid, lingered in the elevator while they waited for her, didn't answer phones, didn't play well, she and she and her. But where were you at that time? Didn't you think for a moment that there was a reason why all these things were happening? Or as long as she managed to maintain the piece, write hits, surprise and perform - sometimes thanks to addiction - then everything is fine?

Many documentaries were made about filmmakers who were addicted at the same time as their success.

In the docuseries about rap star Juice World, who died in 2019 from an overdose of painkillers, we see how everyone around him, including his partner and the people closest to him, use or supply drugs with him. He himself uses in front of the camera, everything is visible, supported by the environment. There isn't a single moment when someone just says "enough." As long as the money machine is functioning, everyone is willing to lend a hand to the self-destruction of this painful young man. That's why it's a fascinating documentary, which tells about an artist's environment, a whole system, that is willing to give him legitimacy to kill himself as long as the chicken continues to lay golden eggs.

It must be said with regret: it is impossible to save everyone. Some people sooner or later the drug will overwhelm them. But you can demand that people who surround successful addicts accept a minimum of responsibility. Do you benefit from someone's talent and enjoy their love? There is no way you do not know that this man is suffering or hurting others. This applies to self-destruction and addiction, and it applies in cases of violence or harassment – there is no such thing as "I didn't know." There is a maximum I ignored/repressed/didn't want to cope.

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Source: israelhayom

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