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Netflix is raving about the "Tinder crook" and yet it must be watched
As usual, Netflix tells a story and does not really manage to reach the level required to delve into the deeper strings.
Despite this the docu-movie "The Tinder Rogue" is worth watching.
Not only because at its center is an infamous Israeli man, but because lessons can be learned from it about women who have fallen into its trap
David Rosenthal
07/02/2022
Monday, 07 February 2022, 00:00
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Trailer for the docu-movie "The Tinder Rogue" (Netflix)
"I never understood how to blame the victim. All I wanted was to help"
(Cecilia Fellhoi, "Tinder crook")
The initial instinct from watching the first part of "Tinder crook", the docu that recently appeared on Netflix, is to point to the women starring in it and tag them in the title The unflattering "Gold Degrees". After all, the story is pretty simple: a girl thirsty for love sees in a dating app pictures of a man in private jets, dressed in the ugliest clothes of the most expensive brands, photographed next to supercars - and slides to the right. How easy it is to drop them online , Literally.
But the truth, as always, is more complex.
Will gold miners continue their economic future to save that rich man, ostensibly, as an investment for the future?
When an innocent young Norwegian woman takes out loans worth 250,000 euros, and all in order to get the man she was emotionally attached to out of distress, is it fair to call her a "gold-digger"?
If you think so, you probably have a gambler's head.
Most women in the world are not gamblers.
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Pointing an accusing finger at the victims does them a great injustice.
Cecilia Farhoy, "The Tinder Crook" (Photo: Netflix)
"The Tinder Rogue" is a new docu that aired on Netflix from the creator of "Do Not Mess with Cats", featuring the story of Simon Leviev, or in his youth Shimon Hayut, a man that almost everyone in Israel has gotten to know in recent years, the subject of national dress.
At its center are three women - Swedish (Pranilla SoloHome), Norwegian (Cecilia Pallhoy) and Dutch (Eileen Charlotte) - who have been part of a vast network of scams that has spread animals over the years against women seeking love.
He committed a perfect romantic Ponzi scam - first he made them feel on the roof of the world, then, under various pretexts, made them lend him money, which of course he did not return but "wheeled" to the next victim and so on.
Netflix, which is known for producing medium-sized docu-movies, faces an interesting challenge.
This is not a classic case of financial fraud, as in the "Dirty Money" series or the publicized docu "The Strange and Scandalous Case of the Fyre Festival".
This time there was a combined element of deception and romance, the so-called "emotional deception".
A lot can be taken out of such films, but Netflix, as usual, told a story and did not really manage to reach the level required to elaborate on the deeper strings.
Like most of her docu-films, this time too she relies on the materials that her excellent researchers have managed to obtain.
Seemingly, recording WhatsApp conversations is a very easy task nowadays, and yet - it is not that simple and Netflix always knows how to find the evidence.
Constructing the narrative, however, is a different story.
Again the same superficial and monotonous mediocrity that makes viewing almost turn into a "second screen", with no deep emotional connection and no real tension.
In the opening, for example, Pranilla and Cecilia toss themselves everywhere, ten minutes of long, dull monologues.
The question is what is the purpose of this exposition.
Yes, we understand how it works, know that people go into Tinder to find love or sex, preferably both, let's move on.
The story is constructed with an annoying slowness and a lack of uniqueness.
Even the revelations that follow do not shake the forearms, at least not in the way they are presented.
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This docu could have achieved more (Photo: Netflix)
Still, the "Tinder crook" has added value.
For us as Israelis, of course, it is "nice" to see how one of us circuses the women of Europe and brings respect and pride to the chosen people.
While programs like "The Imposters" capture crooks operating from Dan to Eilat, Shimon Hayut broke into shards of hearts and bank accounts in an entire continent.
There is no other person in the world other than animals who can make Netflix display documentation of a knock on the door and a conversation in Hebrew in an old apartment building in Bnei Brak.
This story is good enough and interesting from the Israeli angle, especially because of its bottom line: Leviev / Hayut walks around today as a free man, with a model girlfriend by his side and the same luxury cars and super brands.
The only sanctions against him came from Tinder, who blocked him.
On Instagram his account was deleted, it is not clear whether at the initiative of the network or on his own initiative.
What does exist is a fan page of about 1,000 followers, and whether it is a parody or not, the result is the same - at least on a legal level the man comes out empowered, and there is no one who can, at least for now, do anything about it.
Here it is appropriate to delve into the legal issue.
Running animals five months in prison (out of 15 sentenced) for forgery offenses.
The women interviewed hinted that the police had quite waved their complaints, and we are not talking about the police in Israel who are heavily criticized on a daily basis, but in their countries of origin - Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, which are considered enlightened and supportive of citizens.
Why, actually?
Are men, and in this specific case women, who have been brutally stripped of their property unworthy of justice?
The problem is legal.
Manipulation is not put in jail, and for the police (as mentioned, it is important to emphasize - any police, not just ours) has great difficulty in advancing criminal proceedings against a person who has not returned money peacefully to his friend, especially when the offense takes place globally and not in one country.
It's a bit of a shame that Netflix is not developing this point.
Through an interview with professionals who explain why such scams are not legally protected, this docu would have achieved more.
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Pointing an accusing finger at the victims does them a great injustice, not only because on the test of reality they paid a high price, literally, for the desire to fulfill a fantasy, but for the simple reason that one can never know where the deception will begin and where it will end.
It's easy to accuse a young woman who was searching for love by giving all her savings to an anonymous woman she knew on Tinder, but what about married women who have fallen into the trap?
More than six years ago, Odette Danin revealed that her husband for 15 years had deceived her and other women.
If a woman finds out after a decade and a half that her husband is a crook, let us not determine because of a scam based on emotional deception that these are gold debuts, let alone some who have not seen their future go down the drain because of the longing for love.
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