Scorpions Can't Climb Up Glass
Realizador Avishai Becker
Países Israel
Duração 24 min
Sinopse
Scorpions Can't Climb Up Glass – Synopsis (Documentary, 24 minutes) Avishai, 28, the filmmaker, moves away from the countryside to Tel Aviv where things are not going well for him. He hasn't found a decent job or a girlfriend and spends his nights looking for childhood friends on Facebook. He soon comes across the profile of his first and unfulfilled love, Hagar. Exploring Hagar’s wall, Avishai is struck by an event she has posted: Nine years without Dudu. Dudu, the teacher who used to run the petting zoo next to their elementary school, is dead. Avishai remembers Dudu very well. And Avishai remembers how everybody loved and revered Dudu. But Avishai hated him, and believes Dudu hated him back. Avishai knows this, because when he was 11, Dudu tried to kill him., With Dudu dead, Avishai decides to go back to his elementary school near the Dead Sea and investigate. First stop is the Kibutz Kalia petting zoo - the crime scene. Wandering through the deserted zoo, memories begin to emerge, memories of discrimination and of humiliation. Avishai recalls the feelings of inferiority instilled by Dudu in the children who were not from Kalia, and Dudu’s treatment of him and his friend Matan, his making them work longer and harder than the children from Kalia and in cages with frightening animals. When Avishai spots the dovecote, a more significant memory takes hold of him – his being stung by a yellow scorpion at Hagar’s 1994 Bat Mitzvah., Avishai travels to Vered Jericho, where his father recalls the peculiar circumstances surrounding the sting and his fear that Avishai would not survive. The scorpion had been inside a glass jar at the time it stung Avishai. But it is a scientific fact that scorpions can't climb up glass. Someone must have put it there., Thoughtful, Avishai returns to the petting zoo and decorates it just as if it were Hagar’s Bat Mitzvah again. He invites Hagar over. For him it's their first date, for her it's just weird. His attempts to court her don't work. She's not interested and never was. She barely remembers Avishai but does remember the scorpion incident. Avishai is disappointed, but it makes it easier for him to focus on the case. Hagar remembers Avishai being stung by the scorpion whilst playing a ‘find the eggs’ game and one of the eggs, and the scorpion, having been in a glass jar. But Avishai doesn't have the courage to tell Hagar what he suspects, that someone put the scorpion in the glass and that he's sure that someone was Dudu., Avishai goes back to his hometown of Vered Jericho, where he meets Smadar, a classmate and one of his “own people,” with whom he feels more comfortable discussing his suspicions. Sitting with Smadar in an old tree-house, Avishai uncovers details of the Bat Mitzvah and the ‘find the eggs’ game Dudu picked him and Matan, the Vered children, to play. Avishai recalls looking for the eggs and spotting one in a clear glass jar hidden in a dovecote. He remembers reaching for the egg and being stung in the finger. Smadar has no doubt that the Scorpion incident was done on purpose. She blames Dudu and suggests the group of Kalia school girls who were always hanging around him were involved. Smadar remembers being lucky she was close to the ‘Kalia girls’ who took care of her, but remembers Dudu humiliating and discriminating against her friends from Vered, especially Avishai and Matan. But Smadar doubts their classmates from Kalia would ever admit such things had ever happened., Avishai decides to go and meet some of his Kalia classmates to see what they recall. As expected, they remember Dudu as a hero, a role model, a second father. It's hard for them to admit hatred or discrimination was a part of their childhood. Eventually they agree, however, that there was something not quite right about Dudu's behavior towards Avishai and Matan., Sitting at his work table in a darkened room, Avishai outlines the facts collected so far. He ponders, like a detective, the three conditions necessary for someone to be considered a suspect: yes, Dudu had motive and opportunity, but what about means? Where did he get a yellow scorpion?, Avishai receives a video tape of the Bat Mitzvah from Hagar. He watches the tape and is surprised to see that none of the eggs, not even the one in the glass jar in the dovecote, were hidden by Dudu. The eggs were hidden by the Kalia children. Avishai watches the tape again and sees something fishy. Just before they start hiding the eggs, two of the older Kalia girls can be seen whispering, plotting. Avishai remembers Smadar's suspicions: It was Dudu along with that bunch of girls who were always hanging around him., Avishai is determined to confront the two older girls with the new information. He tries to contact them over the phone but they are reluctant to talk. Eventually he persuades one of them to meet, but on the day he is due to interview her she won’t pick up his calls. She is working at Kibutz Kalia and Avishai drops by wearing a hidden microphone. The girl is uncomfortable and claims she has no memory of the day. Avishai makes her watch the video of the Bat Mitzvah in an attempt to bring back a certain memory…but nothing. A random woman then walks into the office. It's Dudu's widow. She says that if she'd met Dudu back then she wouldn't have stayed with him for a minute because of his collection of pet snakes and scorpions. Avishai is startled: means!, Still, Avishai is left with doubts. He visits a memorial to Dudu and lies down to think about it. Questions remain, there is no clear solution.
Scorpions Can't Climb Up Glass – Synopsis (Documentary, 24 minutes) Avishai, 28, the filmmaker, moves away from the countryside to Tel Aviv where things are not going well for him. He hasn't found a decent job or a girlfriend and spends his nights looking for childhood friends on Facebook. He soon comes across the profile of his first and unfulfilled love, Hagar. Exploring Hagar’s wall, Avishai is struck by an event she has posted: Nine years without Dudu. Dudu, the teacher who used to run the petting zoo next to their elementary school, is dead. Avishai remembers Dudu very well. And Avishai remembers how everybody loved and revered Dudu. But Avishai hated him, and believes Dudu hated him back. Avishai knows this, because when he was 11, Dudu tried to kill him., With Dudu dead, Avishai decides to go back to his elementary school near the Dead Sea and investigate. First stop is the Kibutz Kalia petting zoo - the crime scene. Wandering through the deserted zoo, memories begin to emerge, memories of discrimination and of humiliation. Avishai recalls the feelings of inferiority instilled by Dudu in the children who were not from Kalia, and Dudu’s treatment of him and his friend Matan, his making them work longer and harder than the children from Kalia and in cages with frightening animals. When Avishai spots the dovecote, a more significant memory takes hold of him – his being stung by a yellow scorpion at Hagar’s 1994 Bat Mitzvah., Avishai travels to Vered Jericho, where his father recalls the peculiar circumstances surrounding the sting and his fear that Avishai would not survive. The scorpion had been inside a glass jar at the time it stung Avishai. But it is a scientific fact that scorpions can't climb up glass. Someone must have put it there., Thoughtful, Avishai returns to the petting zoo and decorates it just as if it were Hagar’s Bat Mitzvah again. He invites Hagar over. For him it's their first date, for her it's just weird. His attempts to court her don't work. She's not interested and never was. She barely remembers Avishai but does remember the scorpion incident. Avishai is disappointed, but it makes it easier for him to focus on the case. Hagar remembers Avishai being stung by the scorpion whilst playing a ‘find the eggs’ game and one of the eggs, and the scorpion, having been in a glass jar. But Avishai doesn't have the courage to tell Hagar what he suspects, that someone put the scorpion in the glass and that he's sure that someone was Dudu., Avishai goes back to his hometown of Vered Jericho, where he meets Smadar, a classmate and one of his “own people,” with whom he feels more comfortable discussing his suspicions. Sitting with Smadar in an old tree-house, Avishai uncovers details of the Bat Mitzvah and the ‘find the eggs’ game Dudu picked him and Matan, the Vered children, to play. Avishai recalls looking for the eggs and spotting one in a clear glass jar hidden in a dovecote. He remembers reaching for the egg and being stung in the finger. Smadar has no doubt that the Scorpion incident was done on purpose. She blames Dudu and suggests the group of Kalia school girls who were always hanging around him were involved. Smadar remembers being lucky she was close to the ‘Kalia girls’ who took care of her, but remembers Dudu humiliating and discriminating against her friends from Vered, especially Avishai and Matan. But Smadar doubts their classmates from Kalia would ever admit such things had ever happened., Avishai decides to go and meet some of his Kalia classmates to see what they recall. As expected, they remember Dudu as a hero, a role model, a second father. It's hard for them to admit hatred or discrimination was a part of their childhood. Eventually they agree, however, that there was something not quite right about Dudu's behavior towards Avishai and Matan., Sitting at his work table in a darkened room, Avishai outlines the facts collected so far. He ponders, like a detective, the three conditions necessary for someone to be considered a suspect: yes, Dudu had motive and opportunity, but what about means? Where did he get a yellow scorpion?, Avishai receives a video tape of the Bat Mitzvah from Hagar. He watches the tape and is surprised to see that none of the eggs, not even the one in the glass jar in the dovecote, were hidden by Dudu. The eggs were hidden by the Kalia children. Avishai watches the tape again and sees something fishy. Just before they start hiding the eggs, two of the older Kalia girls can be seen whispering, plotting. Avishai remembers Smadar's suspicions: It was Dudu along with that bunch of girls who were always hanging around him., Avishai is determined to confront the two older girls with the new information. He tries to contact them over the phone but they are reluctant to talk. Eventually he persuades one of them to meet, but on the day he is due to interview her she won’t pick up his calls. She is working at Kibutz Kalia and Avishai drops by wearing a hidden microphone. The girl is uncomfortable and claims she has no memory of the day. Avishai makes her watch the video of the Bat Mitzvah in an attempt to bring back a certain memory…but nothing. A random woman then walks into the office. It's Dudu's widow. She says that if she'd met Dudu back then she wouldn't have stayed with him for a minute because of his collection of pet snakes and scorpions. Avishai is startled: means!, Still, Avishai is left with doubts. He visits a memorial to Dudu and lies down to think about it. Questions remain, there is no clear solution.