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Netflix, how did you manage to ruin this series even before it started?

A series of mysterious explosions rocked Utah in 1985, leaving the Mormon Church embarrassed.

The new docu-series "The Forger" is trying to recreate these days, but Netflix has done injustice to this fascinating and complex story with some particularly puzzling decisions.

The result is superficial and rather unnecessary

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Monday, 08 March 2021, 10:50 Updated: 11:44

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Trailer for the series "Murder Among the Mormons" (Netflix)

The writer of these lines has often complained about the level of translation on Netflix, which ranges from "satisfactory" to "really embarrassing."

It is worth noting that this is not just a petty review or a shaming attempt on the translators in the service, some of them excellent.

The hallucination that such a large content company, which throws money everywhere in order to be the largest and brand itself as the world's leading streaming network, is able to throw in such a critical place for the viewer as translation.

I remember a particularly difficult viewing experience at John Moleini's 2018 stand-up special, where the translation gives a good fight to the comedian's humor on stage.

For example, when he says that he had a poster of Trentino's first film in the dorm room of the college, in the translation it is written that "he had a poster of a collection of dogs."

This is not even the strangest translation in that show.

But it seems that with the new docu-series that has hit the service, Netflix has decided to jump one step further, and ruin the viewing experience already with the translation of the series' name.

The series, called in English, Murder Among the Mormons (literally: "Murder Among the Mormons") tells the story that agitated the state of Utah in the USA in 1985, when three bombs were planted around Salt Lake City and killed two people. The series was translated into Hebrew Namely: "The counterfeiter". In doing so, the Netflix Israel people reveal to us the twist of the story, which is revealed only towards the end of the second episode. In a three-part series, this is a spoiler piece, probably when the Hebrew name appeals to an audience that is mostly unfamiliar. To make a spoiler for two well-known films - which would translate "The Sixth Sense" to "Dead Man Talks to a Child" or "Fight Club" to "Split Violent Personality".

And not that it matters too much, mainly because it's one of the less successful docu-crime series The series tells the story of the explosions that shook Salt Lake City and the period before them. In those days, mysterious documents from the 19th century were discovered, when the Mormon Church was established. The series builds the tension towards the discovery of who planted the bombs. At a certain point, it seems that the city's religious leaders are the ones who tried to kill everyone involved in finding the documents.

Wer, already reveals to us that this is a forgery, something that will not be revealed until a later stage in the series.

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Mark Hoffman was a cold-blooded killer, but he is not the most dangerous man in this series (Photo: Netflix)

The story takes a stage when we discover that whoever is responsible for the mysterious explosions is none other than the man who was seriously injured by the third bomb.

Mark Hoffman, who is now considered one of the most sophisticated and successful counterfeiters in history, also managed to work on the angel of death when he survived the explosion, but was eventually caught by the authorities.

At the end of the series we find out what happened to Hoffman.

The series is directed by Taylor Mismo and Jared Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite," "Nacho Libre"), the first being a former Mormon and the second a Mormon in the present, which in retrospect somewhat castrates the entire piece.

The reference to Hoffman as "Michael Jordan of the forgers" is ridiculous when it comes to a series about one of the funniest religions in the world.

All religions have some absurd elements that one has to really believe in in order to ignore their irrationality.

In Judaism there is the parting of the Red Sea, in Christianity there is Jesus walking on water, in Islam there is the ascension of Muhammad to heaven - but there are not many religions with such amusing characteristics in their daily basis as in the Mormons.

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Instead of presenting the entertaining side of the Mormon community, we have mostly seen reconstructions of document forgery (Photo: Netflix)

Right on the tip of the fork: Mormons believe that God was revealed to an American boy named Joseph Smith in New York in the 19th century and commissioned him to write the third part of the Christian Bible (after the Old and New Testaments). According to the Mormon faith, Joe dug In his courtyard he found gold tablets engraved with signs in an unknown language. Joe used lights and tomes to translate the Scriptures from the gold tablets into English, and published the result as a "Book of Mormon." The Holy Book of Mormon tells the story of the 13th tribe Israel to America in the First Temple Period, and Jesus' Journey to Meet Them It is worth noting that no one but Joe saw the gold plates, and all Mormon belief is based on the fact that Joseph Smith was the prophet of God. Thousands of people believed him in the 19th century. , Today they number several million. And

this belief lacks any historical or scientific logic. Few "Scriptures" like the Book of Mormon have been so meticulously scientifically refuted. Mormons believe that the Indians in North America are descendants of the children of Israel. They wear "holy underwear." Under the clothes to maintain body purity.They believe that every man should marry a large number of women (Joseph Smith himself had 49 women) but they strip

Yaku do it because of clashes with the American authorities.

This is also the reason why in 1978 they allowed African-Americans to join the church, even though the Book of Mormon states that black people were punished by God who painted them the color of sin.

As soon as the US administration announced that the Mormon Church would stop receiving tax breaks, God turned to the church president (!) And told him that he had changed his mind about black people.

Yes, Mormons completely believe that the church president speaks directly to God.

For example, the last instruction of the current church president was to stop using the words "Mormon Church" but to call the body by its official name: "The Church of Christ and the Saints of the end times."

This is also how the church is treated throughout the series.

For the avoidance of doubt, Joseph Smith, the founder of the religion, was a much bigger "forger" than the protagonist of the Netflix series, who overall tried to make a slight profit at the expense of the religious belief he knew so well.

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Trapped the world's greatest experts in identifying fake documents (Photo: Netflix)

The story of the forger Mark Hoffman is fascinating on paper.

This is a man who managed to seduce the FBI's greatest experts and make them believe that documents he created in his small study were handwritten by Joseph Smith's family, 150 years before he was born.

But his forgery was not stopped only by documents.

He was able to work on his closest friends, his family and even the polygraph machine.

According to the series, he "won" the polygraph with the best score ever for what later turned out to be a complete lie.

His forgeries were not limited to the affairs of the Mormon Church, and he forged "original" documents and signatures of the greats of the American nation, from George Washington to Mark Twain, and even "found" a treasured poem by the poet Emily Dickinson, which he of course wrote himself .

All of these deserve to be a footnote in the Netflix series, as the creators do everything they can to not glorify the name of Hoffman, whose hands are eventually redeemed by blood.

But the decision not to make the comparison between the fakes for Hoffman's greed for money, and those made daily by Mormon Church officials ultimately undermines the credibility of the series.

Instead of analyzing the very meaning of the ease with which all the foundations of the faith of an entire church can be challenged by a sheet of paper, the series deals in a cold and old-fashioned way with a crime story that could just as easily have been read on Wikipedia.

And most importantly, it's not fun.

After the award-winning musical "Book of Mormon" by the creator of "South Park" and "Break the Ice", it is difficult to see a work centered on the Mormon Church that ignores all the delusional things that happened in the name of faith (I have already mentioned that Mormons believe God and Jesus live on planets and they Baptized to Christianity after Anne Frank?), And on the other hand also does not present minimal criticism of the Church's treatment of strangers, their blatant missionaryism, or their lack of empathy for the proud community, let alone built-in homophobia, that caused the Mormon epidemic of suicides.

Mark Hoffman may have murdered two people in cold blood and his place in prison, but overall he hurt far fewer people than the clerics who get a strip on Netflix's doc, like in real life.

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