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 will to know. The sequence she wrote and directed with the sensitivity of the creator Michal Winick (“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 footwear of the skilled researcher Morris Cohen, who was known as to crack a stunning sexual assault case in a resort in Netanya. Hooked up to his investigation crew 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 night time (Sunday), we witness the second of extreme sexual assault skilled by Meli within the resort room at midnight. Regardless of the selection to open the sequence straight with the brutal assault, “The Man Who Wished to Know All the pieces” manages with sensitivity and class to method this charged topic from a affected person and mild place. That is expressed first via the minimalist visible language, which voyeuristically follows the struggles of every of the characters within the gradual growth of the investigation. The sequence avoids overloading the body with an extra of colours and particulars, and moderately 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 best way the digicam reveals solely a number of the figures hidden by partitions, folks and objects. This alternative appears to point that they, like us, are unsuccessfully making an attempt 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 now we have recognized who the potential attacker is, the sequence makes positive to fully dismantle the image that has now grow to be clearer and brings us again to the start line.
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Neta 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 subtle separation between who he’s on the surface, and the best way wherein his position consumes him on the within. The alienated and restrained environment 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 generally appears that the tempo is simply too gradual 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 Important Field – after all, unique content material of Kan 11 – which supplied a second of self-aware leisure, which hopefully will proceed to come back later within the sequence.
“The Man Who Wished to Know All the pieces” is a vital sequence that’s price watching, however it’ll require your endurance.