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Title: Zero Motivation (2014)
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A zany, dark, & comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers. The Human Resources Office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters who bide their time pushing paper and battling in computer games, counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment - to friendship, love, and country - are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit. Written by Earth Day
In Talya Lavie's film there is a scene where a male soldier tells female conscripts about his recruit training. It was really bad, like the holocaust, he narrates. Why? Because the officers were like the Nazis, he goes on. I'm not a Jew, so if I told you the rest of this holocaust joke, it would be absolutely tasteless. I can't do that. But funny it is, when told by a Jew in Israeli Defense Forces uniform to other soldiers. The humour in this film relies on unlikely and sudden contradictions such as this, which is pretty much the definition of a farce. Some reviewers here have obviously not recognized this genre and have not expected the unexpected which this film delivers in plentiful doses. If you ask a cinema lover about Jewish humour, she or he probably first thinks of Woody Allen telling a joke about God, and why not - but he's told so many of them we're surely ready for some new perspectives. Joseph Cedar's Footnote was a refreshing dark comedy from Israel and Lavie's Zero Motivation is a fine showcase for classical Jewish humour in a fresh setting, the all-female personnel files office of a desert military base. One reviewer thought that the soldier girls are bitching and lack solidarity - to me it seems they are mostly just being argumentative pretty much as a Jew is expected and brought up to be. Another non-Israeli reviewer was shocked by the suicide of a young woman sneaking into the base dressed as a soldier. This is sensitive, of course, but one has to remember the tragicomic context. The biggest fear in the Israeli base is surely an attack by a suicide bomber. Then an outsider penetrates the base using a fake ID - and kills herself but for purely romantic reasons. The Palestinians are present in the film only in hints such as this. The film is based on Talya Lavie's own experiences in the IDF. She must have been bored. But the audience of the film is not. I'm not in the target audience: I'm a 60-year old Nordic male conscience objector and as said not Jewish. Yet I enjoyed the whole thing and think I got most of the jokes right. Could be re-written into an effective theatrical farce.