What a disappointment. I don't particularly care for Israeli films for a number of reasons, some of which were present here in this film but I'll leave these aside as I've dealt with them elsewhere.
The film didn't mean anything at all. It flirted with the idea of gay swimmers or athletes but skittles away from it every time. Worse, it seemed to have been edited and cut badly as scenarios were presented that had no basis in what had come before. Why did the other guys turn against Erez all of a sudden with slurs about him wrongly being in the men's showers? How come the coach got so negative with him after being sure he could go all the way?
There was no back story to anyone, except Paloma and this threw up more questions than answers about her life and motivations.
The final scenes were not believable what with all the shouting and yelling. As for the competition, the way it was conceptualised was cringeworthy.
I watched it all, not for the slickness of the story but in the hope that something interesting or explanatory would happen. It didn't.
