Zero Motivation
Movie • 2014 • Drama
ReportFilmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
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Zohar, intending to lose her virginity, sets up a "date" with a visiting soldier, but once they are alone, he ignores her requests to be gentle. He aggressively takes off her clothes, but they are interrupted before it goes any further.
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Tehila cuts her stomach with a utility knife.
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At the beginning of the film, Tehila cuts her stomach. The next morning, her roommates find her in bed with blood all over the floor and her sheets.
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It is joked about, briefly, after Zohar throws up at Daffi's going-away party.
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A character we meet early on, Tehila, is shown to be stalking a guy, Ethan, and discovers him with another woman. Could be triggering even though it's revealed that Ethan and Tehila weren't in a relationship.
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(Spoilers for early on) Tehila, who Daffi mistakes as her replacement, snuck into the base to find a boy she barely knows. After she (another spoiler) dies, there is no more stalking.
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Zohar throws up after drinking what's translated as "grape juice"
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After Ethan sends Tehila away, she hides in a shower stall while the other girls ask after her. While there, Tehila cuts her stomach.
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Irena imagines Tehila, who had died earlier in the film, crawling into bed with her. There is later talk of "ghosts" and "possession" when Irena acts weirdly the next day.
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Tagging as 'yes' just in case, but the visiting soldier likens a group to "Nazis". Irena protests, and Zohar defends the other soldier's right to use the figure of speech. There is brief mention of the Holocaust.
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Irena acts weirdly after sleeping in Tehila's old bed, and the other girls refer to her as being "possessed". Zohar uses this "possession" to explain Irena pretending not to be able to corroborate one of Zohar's excuses.
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There is sexually suggestive dialogue throughout (the girls discuss how they lose their virginity, Irena gives Zohar vulgar "advice"). The sexual content is at first consensual but turns non-consensual. The man aggressively removes Zohar's clothes and disrobes himself, but they are stopped by Irena. There is both female and male nudity.
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There are guns, but no one is shot. When the visiting soldier is forcing himself on Zohar, Irena shoots a gun as a warning and points it at him.
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Zohar vomits after drinking all the grape juice at Daffi's going-away party. The paratrooper visitor vomits into a trash can when Irena is threatening him with a gun.
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