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Avinoam and the Syrian soldier talked about peace.
Then this dream was immediately executed
The insane chaos in the census in a volume that shows how everything collapses, the disintegration of the armored force led by the increasingly insane money, and the human encounter between Avinoam and the Syrian soldier who just wants to return home to his parents.
"Lock Time", Chapter 4
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Nadav Menuhin
Tuesday, 03 November 2020, 08:34
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Promo of the series "Lock Hour" (here 11)
"Lock Hour" is nearing its midpoint, as in the fourth episode aired last night it finally ends the first day of the war.
Although the conflict is still far from over, this proportion makes sense: the market and the intensity of the blow are at the heart of the narrative of the Yom Kippur War.
The days to come after him will not be much easier.
The main arena where this chaos is felt is not necessarily on the battlefield, but in its headquarters in volume - an arena that gained very little screen time in the last episode, although it is perhaps most interesting: this is how a headquarters collapses under the disaster, and has a hard time coping.
Noise, telephones, complete mess.
The script here is sparse, and consists more of movements than words.
Manny and Malachi are just interfering and their lines are here to get out by duty.
A good actress like Joy Rieger, sitting like Daphne, is able to express quite a bit with the little that is, as she slowly and quietly falls into a chair as soon as she finds out what happened at Mount Hermon, with soldiers moving their hands on a map in a way that doesn't seem to make sense.
The nervous breakdown of Tamir (Tom Avni), one of many collapses we have already witnessed, symbolizes the depth of helplessness.
The soldiers on the ground, 19-year-old children, already understood that they could not trust the headquarters / leadership / command to come and rescue them.
They need alternative leadership.
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Perfunctorily.
Manny and Malachi (screenshot)
And speaking of alternative leadership and a nervous breakdown: meanwhile on the mountain, Caspi (Omar Perlman)'s armored force is falling apart a little more under his growing madness.
The confrontation between him and Marco (Ofer Hayun) seems to be the central axis of the whole plot: Ashkenazis versus Mizrahis, commanders versus soldiers, ideals versus ideals that everyone is willing to die for.
But the series stretches this axis non-stop, to the point of chewing.
This time, Marco decides to rebel and descend the mountain on the only tank still traveling, when no one else dares to go against the commander.
When Marco decides to act, and take the body of the previous commander out of the tank - a confrontation develops between the two that almost ends in murder: the commander almost shoots the soldier, who later strangles the commander.
At this point, it should already be clear to all present that Caspi has no discretion.
This could have been an interesting scene: the dead commander in the hands of the wayward soldier who insists on living, is held between him and the lieutenant who is desperate to die.
But like many other times throughout the series, it does not evolve into any poetic horizon.
Even after Marco subdues Caspi, proving he wants to live, the confrontation between the two will not really end.
Only one thing will cut it: the bomb of the only active tank, which eliminates their chances of escaping the mountain in the meantime.
Positive development comes from the direction of Yoni Ben Dror (Lee Byrne) who begins to communicate as the force gathers things and begins to recover.
He still doesn’t talk too much, and it’s still not really clear what his role in the plot is and what baggage he carries with him beyond being the son of his father looking for him.
In any case, he is starting to open up to Alush (Emery Bitton, one of the most reliable actors in the cast).
But a downed pilot feeds all the passions again, and we find that the whole confrontation earlier has not resolved anything.
Caspi runs without thinking twice to the line of fire, it is not clear whether out of logic or another episode of madness, and again confronts Marco.
Either way, the new gang - Caspi, Alush, Marco and Yoni - manage to rescue the unfortunate pilot from the hands of four Syrians, in a rather brave and bizarre action.
However, more than any action, what is left of it is the look on Yoni's face, this time in the role of the shooter, stunned again by the horrors of war that unfolded before him.
Dreams of peace.
Avinoam (screenshot)
The force that managed to escape from the Hermon outpost makes its way to Majdal Shams under cover of darkness: fighters, a medic, intelligence soldiers and the hedgehog Acorn, which Avinoam (Shahar Tabuch) carries in a box.
Everything goes well, up to the west that is buried for them, and ends in a fatal outcome.
The Syrian force was completely eliminated, but the price is heavy: out of all the force, only the wounded commander Yoav (Aviv Alush) and the frightened Avinoam remained.
All the rest were killed.
At the end of the battle comes the most powerful whip so far in the series: Avinoam, who is hiding behind her body (after Marco, he is the second to use one as a human shield), rises up in the field and sees all his comrades lying lifeless on the vegetation, with the camera rising.
At once the magnitude of the disaster is felt as opposed to pastoralism.
But Avinoam is more preoccupied with the question of where the hedgehog Acorn went, and finds himself carrying and giving in to a wounded and unarmed Syrian soldier - the first we see up close throughout the series.
The encounter between two enemy soldiers is of course a familiar model with a known effect - the opposition between the indiscriminate violence of war and human communication between two children who have done nothing wrong to anyone.
Each of them has parents, family, and fears abound.
Interestingly, they communicate through the Arabic that Avinoam studied in high school and the intelligence corps, and on that basis they develop trust in each other.
The unfortunate Syrian said he was from the village of Batna, near Damascus.
When peace comes one day, he told his new friend, come to the area, and I will take you to eat the best falafel in the Middle East (peace as an expected and boring orientalist fantasy).
The dialogue between the two is long and puzzling ("How many brothers do you have?" What does it matter?), But the embarrassed Avinoam somehow quickly feels more comfortable with the frightened warrior than with any other soldier so far.
They both hope to return home safely.
A kind of execution.
Yoav (screenshot)
This dream was cut short at once, also in a predictable way: soon the bullet would arrive that would open his forehead and splash blood on all of Avinoam, in a kind of execution of an unarmed, completely unnecessary enemy (why does Yoav not interrogate him? Or take him captive? Or just expel him?) . The war is cruel, it has no righteous people, and when you tell the story - the enemy is not saved. Fate is no less cruel: decades later, when a civil war breaks out across the border, it will be a lining village that Syrian tanks will enter for occupation purposes.
The armored force lost a commander in the Golan, and the Golani force commander lost its soldiers. Now, without other brothers in arms, these are only Yoav and Avinoam left from the outpost, groping their way to the IDF forces. One is bleeding, the other is dripping with blood. They are both angry at each other, and they both have no choice but to trust each other for now. Already the rest of the heroes of the series, they have no one else.
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