Quietly and slowly, Kaan 11’s new suspense sequence, “The Man Who Wished to Know All the pieces”, succeeds in spinning the viewing expertise and infecting us, the viewers, with essentially the most fundamental human intuition – the need to know. The sequence she wrote and directed with the sensitivity of the creator Michal Winnick (“Valeria Will get Married”) is the primary tv adaptation of the e-book by A sparrow from methe third within the profitable sequence of suspense books concerning the researcher Avraham Avraham.
He stepped into the sneakers of the skilled researcher Morris Cohen, who was referred to as to crack a stunning sexual assault case in a resort in Netanya. Hooked up to his investigation workforce is the detective Orna, performed by Netta Riskin, which manages to upset him particularly. Whereas the 2 investigators are arguing concerning the instructions of the investigation, a citizen named Kobi (Imary Beaton) whose spouse is Meli (Einat Holland) is the sufferer of the sexual assault on the resort, decides to open his personal undercover investigation.
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Already within the first episode that aired final evening (Sunday), we witness the second of extreme sexual assault skilled by Meli within the resort room at the hours of darkness. Regardless of the selection to open the sequence instantly with the brutal assault, “The Man Who Wished to Know All the pieces” manages with sensitivity and class to strategy this charged topic from a affected person and delicate place. That is expressed first by the minimalist visible language, which voyeuristically follows the struggles of every of the characters within the sluggish improvement of the investigation. The sequence avoids overloading the body with an extra of colours and particulars, and relatively tries to look modestly on the lives of the couple who’ve simply skilled an upheaval.
A recurring theme of concealment is expressed in the way in which the digicam reveals solely among the figures hidden by partitions, individuals and objects. This alternative appears to point that they, like us, are unsuccessfully attempting to place collectively a disjointed image and extra importantly – the identical urge embodied in every of the characters to disclose the id of the mysterious assailant. However each time we predict we have now recognized who the potential attacker is, the sequence makes certain to utterly dismantle the image that has now turn into clearer and brings us again to the place to begin.
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Netta Riskin’s exact efficiency manages to hold on her shoulders the unbridled impulsiveness of Detective Orna alongside a pulsating sensitivity. Beside her, Maurice Cohen brings with him a breath of recent air to the character of the robust researcher and creates a sort of refined separation between who he’s on the skin, and the way in which wherein his position consumes him on the within. The alienated and restrained ambiance that comes instantly after that sexual assault, cracks when the protecting associate, Kobi, enters the image. Imrie Beaton asserts the character of Kobe with an explosive emotion pushed by absolute love that contrasts with the isolation skilled by his associate Meli. Einat Holland manages to convey the identical complexity of the trauma that Mali skilled in her physique and soul, and the detachment that comes as a part of her personal processing course of.
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With all of the sensitivity and endurance that the sequence is characterised by, it typically appears that the tempo is simply too sluggish and in these moments the great soundtrack that she composed Dafna Kenan as a canopy for that slowness. Regardless of this, the sequence is able to offering refreshing comedic moments, such because the second when Meli watched an episode from Foremost Field – after all, authentic content material of Kan 11 – which supplied a second of self-aware rest, which hopefully will proceed to come back later within the sequence.
“The Man Who Wished to Know All the pieces” is a crucial sequence that’s value watching, however it’ll require your endurance.
