Resisim

A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. God knows how he survived. When he’s back home, he starts doing group therapy in a military rehab centre, meeting all kinds of fellow soldiers who, like him, have lost some of their beliefs or peace of mind in the battlefield.
Yossi Somer, possibly the greatest underachiever in contemporary Israeli cinema (two feature films/two masterpieces in twenty years) served as a paramedic during the First Lebanon War – guess that means he certainly knows what he’s talking about. Combat, here, is mainly a flashback thing. Resisim is above all about therapy, and very much about its limits – with the group as a mirror of Israel’s unease with itself, in much the same way as the tank crew of Lebanon (2009) later on.