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"Blackspace" begins with a terrifying and frightening scene.
From there it gets a little confusing
The main thing that "BlackSpace" offers compared to its sisters in the genre is more stylish and ornate violence, bordering on horror, of the kind that is unusual to see on the Israeli screen.
It will be interesting to find out if later in the series the organization manages to organize this violence as part of a deeper story about the wounds of Israeli society
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Nadav Menuhin
Monday, 14 December 2020, 08:46
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Repressed past.
Guri Alfi, Blackspace (Photo: Ohad Romano)
The opening scene of "Blackspace" (directed by Ofir Lubel and created by Sahar Shavit and Anat Gafni, Network 13) is terrifying, but also fascinating.
It begins with the Memorial Day ceremony in the presence of the Sheminists at Moreshet Rabin High School (of course), with a pathos-filled, almost parody, speech by the school principal (Shai Avivi), followed by a girl and girl singing and singing the "Song of Evil," perhaps famous in war songs Independence.
It's doubtful that "Song of Evil" will mean anything to boys in 2020, a generation that knows wars mostly from a PlayStation screen (and very well so).
Between them and the high words of the manager, there is almost an abyss of obsolete ties.
This is the moment when the nightmare of American youth erupts into an event and assassinates the Israeli national ceremony: four people, dressed in a unicorn costume that hides their faces, enter and start firing in all directions.
Four students are killed.
The foreign disaster of the United States as the new local nightmare.
This is a scene that is excellently written, just as it is horrifying.
Policeman Rami Davidi (Guri Alfi), who is blind and bitter, who apparently is a graduate of the school, arrives at the scene and begins to investigate, with a traumatic past behind him that he represses, and its nature is unknown to us, but is probably also related to the same cursed high school.
From here, it seems, the series dives into the same madness of adolescence, and the violence will resurface.
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Strong start, and what's next?
Blackspace (screenshot)
At this strong point "Blackspace" begins, but does not know where to go, at least in the first episode, the only one sent to journalists before last night's broadcast on Channel 13 (another episode will be broadcast today).
A confused investigation begins, Palestinians are arrested and a nationalist terrorist attack is declared without any evidence to suggest it.
This single episode leaves a lot of edges open, and at the same time points to a possible suspect in the act - one of the boys.
In the meantime, we know so little about this set of characters, that for now just not interesting enough.
Thousands of somewhat enigmatic hero designer.
Davidi is missing the touching personality of Izzy Bachar (Manaich), the idealism of Marcel Ben David (PAMTA) or the patience and heart of Avraham Avraham (missing case), the cops who have occupied the screen in the last two years. Meanwhile, he is mostly blocked, and not satisfying We have too many reasons to identify with him. We hardly know the students by name, and the moral panic that accompanies tracing the 'secret world of teens' evokes even less desire to dive in.
Right now, the main thing BlackSpace offers compared to its sisters in the genre is more stylized violence. And ornate, on the verge of horror, of a kind that is unusual to see on the Israeli screen but has no difficulty finding on Netflix.It will be interesting to find out if later the series manages to organize this violence in a deeper story about the wounds of Israeli society, because otherwise there is no point in shedding fiction.
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