I don't understand why this movie was made. It is so slight as to be non-existent. I will grant the possibility that there was something lost in translation: I'm not Israeli so maybe there are cultural aspects that don't translate. Also, I read the dialog in subscripts. Some have called it a dark comedy. Frequently this means "not funny" or "high concept, conceptually funny, but not actually funny." I did laugh twice, but that doesn't make it a comedy. In the first story of three related stories, a young woman commits suicide in a gruesome way. Ha ha. So maybe it's a drama then. But the drama is superficial and unbelievable, based on e.g. a nasty character, the office boss and apparently an officer, who is so over-the-top mean that the character is literally not believable. Other episodes are poorly written as when two characters go missing from an intense project for hours without being missed. There is attempted drama between some of the young women characters which is really no more than trivial friction among friends. There is a surreal scene where apparently a ghost enters someone's bed and that person might or might not be possessed for a few hours. There are farcical aspects such as when an impossibly slow paper shredder is suddenly able to fill an entire office with shreddings. There is a date gone sort of wrong interrupted by a gun-toting possibly- possessed woman. There is a shoot-out with staple guns that could have been funny but the context is that these characters are truly trying to harm the other. Despite these scenarios, all of this adds up to approximately nothing—a hollow experience, a wasted movie night.
Review of Zero Motivation
