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The film about Olmert is certain that the right planned a plot to overthrow him.
It's embarrassing, and it sounds too familiar
Olmert is confident even today, after he has finished serving his sentence, that he is not a corrupt person, and that the verdict against him was wrong.
In the new docu-film, "The Man Who Wanted Too Much" by director Roni Abulafia (HOT8), he flattens his public version of events.
She's not very convincing
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Ehud Olmert
Channel 8
Nadav Menuhin
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 08:42
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The collective memory is deceptive.
Who even remembers that there was once a prime minister here who is not Benjamin Netanyahu.
But if you scratch your head a little, something starts ringing.
Yes, there was something like this: Ehud Olmert, a man enacted in history as the first Israeli prime minister to be convicted of corruption, and who in his term had two terrible wars.
Olmert is confident even today, after he has finished serving his sentence, that he is not a corrupt person, and that the verdict against him was wrong.
In the new docu-film, "The Man Who Wanted Too Much" by director Roni Abulafia (HOT8), he flattens his public version of events.
She's not very convincing.
The docu consists of two parts that are actually one: the prime minister and the defendant.
He deftly unfolds Olmert's political career, also deftly marks prominent milestones in Olmert's government (and skips others, less flattering), and concludes with a comprehensive accompaniment of the criminal proceedings against him, during brief conversations with the infamous politician himself.
Visually, this is a handsome and aesthetic film, based on a fair combination of interviews with key figures, archive footage, daily news clips and Olmert's accompaniment upon his release from prison.
These are embedded side by side in an attempt to tell what things look like on the part of the former prime minister, a task the film enthusiastically enlists.
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The version is not convincing.
Olmert (Photo: PR, HOT8)
In fact, this work seeks to win him over publicly - when the battle revolves not only around the question of guilt or the righteousness of the political path, but also and especially over image: for example, in this flattering defense, Olmert, who has the image of a hedonistic and even corrupt man, On bread as one person, in a picture that symbolizes all modesty and simplicity.
All this is accompanied by particularly supportive witnesses, who explain from their point of view how a series of particularly unusual events and whims led to Olmert's conviction, which apparently should not have happened, while others insist on his political vision and leftist positions. Extreme until it brought on him - it was alleged - opponents who were looking for incriminating material on him.
Taking real responsibility - not really here.
Everyone else is to blame.
In fact, the film's narrative portrays Olmert as someone whose political opponents, settlers, American Zionists, and law enforcement agencies each acted in their own way to overthrow him through criminal investigations, solely because of his political views.
Does this embarrassing claim sound a little familiar?
This is not really the case.
Everyone joined against him.
Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)
But Ehud Olmert today has only one public asset: he is not Benjamin Netanyahu.
When it refuses to leave his seat despite the charges against him, attacks the law enforcement and gatekeepers, threatens an annexation that has meanwhile been replaced by normalization agreements and fails to manage the most serious crisis here in a long time, his predecessor was probably perceived, for some reason. To which this country has gone.
But there is nothing more pathetic than nostalgia for those good times, when a prime minister would resign when a cloud of corruption threatened over his head even before an indictment was filed against him.
There is nothing to miss.
This mainly indicates how much minimal expectation has been eroded from elected officials in the past decade since Olmert's resignation, whose government itself contained several ministers who were forced to resign due to various affair.
At the beginning of the film, Olmert expresses sorrow that the corruption cases are what he is remembered for, and not other things.
He does not respond in the film to the events of the hour, nor does he recount much in relation to the events that took place during his tenure.
Beyond that, it is difficult to say that we learn from "the man who wanted too much" about Olmert's personality and character too new things beyond the legal saga he went through, or about the social and cultural processes that took place under his rule.
So in the end, when most of the film is about the criminal entanglement, it fulfills exactly the same frustration that the former prime minister voiced at the beginning.
Maybe even in this matter, he wanted more than he could get.
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