Cinema Club

I have been so concentrated in using my  olfactory & digestive systems in the last few weeks, I have neglected to tell you about a great optical experience that I had a few weeks back. (For those of you that need an explanation – I followed my sense of smell straight to the food and ate with relish!). I went to the movies in Tel Aviv…

Cordially invited by a good friend to a premier at the cinema club called Cinematheque, a wonderful establishment showing avant garde films, I viewed with great interest a documentary titled Beneath the Helmet,  about the journey of five 18 year old graduates who are drafted into military service in order to defend the country ( and thank goodness survived and sitting in the front row).

The filmmakers were granted total access to these teenager recruits daily lives, so we the audience experienced their trials and tribulations, felt their joy or pain, enjoyed their intense comradeship and carried with them the very heavy  burden of responsibility which they had accepted. For me it was an intimate voyage. The film gave me a greater insight into how little our sons and daughters experience of their childhood years and, how very quickly they have to become fully fledged adults..

This documentary is targeted primarily at Jewish youth audiences, but if you ever have the chance to see it in your country I would suggest you try.

Film: Beneath the Helmet

♥ Cinematheque Tel Aviv, 2 Shprintsak St.

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