Goodbye language!

A young Israeli with a biblical name Yoav (Job) after the army comes to Paris. Without money, without things - his backpack is stealing almost immediately. Only stories from his past life in Israel, the country with which he seeks to break, remain with Joay. Joav stops contacting his loved ones and speak Hebrew and persistently teaches French. It is in this language that he wants to record his stories. In the meantime, he repeats the French synonyms.

The main character of Lapida’s film, in many ways of autobiographical (the director in his youth also fled to Paris), hates his homeland-first of all, for the fact that the dream of the first Zionists-Utopists turned into a militaristic nightmare. The topic is quite common in Israeli cinema - we recall the recent Foxtrot. But about Israel, this is a movie to the same extent as about France.

“Synonyms”, rather, talk about alienation and loneliness in modern Europe, which are subject to all of it as if prosperous inhabitants. The Prophet (or the poet, that in general) yoav, crazy and uncontrollable, beggar, dressed in Kenzo arrived in Kenzo , arrived.

Yoav continues the long tradition of Kloshars and Lumpen in Paris: a naked body in an empty apartment, dinner for one and a half euros selected on a bridge cigarette butt, a fashionable coat as a pass to the club, where you can steal a piece of bread.

Inherits the film and another French phenomenon - the absurd theater. There are many strange, inexplicable scenes on the verge of farce and tragedy in Synonym-in one of them a photographer that takes a yoava for gay magazine asks him to shout the words of passion in Hebrew, putting his finger in the anus; In despair, our hero yells: “What am I doing here?! Away! Away!" The scenes and scenes in the school for immigrants, where European values ​​are vaccinated from this episode and scenes are not very different. It is not surprising that when Joav recognizes better the hidden language of his new homeland, he understands that the system is exactly the same everywhere. That France and Israel, war and freedom, blood and equality, cruelty and utopia are nothing more than synonyms.

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