I really love the fact that everything is a surprise when you’re learning a sport from scratch. Jordan Staal, who struggled in 24/7 Penguins/Capitals documentary and Freddie Andersen, who struggled in All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs are now winning the Stanley Cup
The filmmaker seems like a decent enough guy but this completely misses the point of the cultural boycott. It's not about the individual. Lapid's work, no matter how self-critical, is still perceived as a cultural export of Israel. It normalizes a place that is anything but normal! The film's mere existence gives the impression that there's some possibility of a complex societal debate going on within Israel when in fact the filmmaker himself has literally abandoned the country as completely hopeless! It ultimately serves to humanize and center the anguish of the Israeli perpetrators while treating its victims as faceless plot devices; the most Palestinians can ever aspire to be in this sort of cultural production is nothing more than, as Tareq Baconi puts it, "the canvas upon which the Jewish psychodrama takes place".