Another ambulatory day at home. We watched Halfon Hill Doesn’t Answer – a slapstick comedy from the seventies about a crazy army unit on the Egyptian border. It’s got all the standard characters – the swindler, the naive sexy girl, the experienced sexy girl, the stern Egyptian officer with a heart of gold, etc. etc. There is a glow about the whole idea of Egypt and Israel, naive and optimistic, and it is not hard to see the connection between the writer and his father Moshe Dayan.
There is a frequent commercial on tv for a phone company that portrays an army unit called to the wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and it takes a few moments before they throw a soccer ball over the wall and it comes back – The commercial is supposed to be about communication but it sticks in the throats of a lot of my friends because it is so opposed to the contemporary reality, but when the Halfon film was made, it seemed to me to be really possible.
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