Gitit Fisher turned "Bodeket" into a series you can't get enough of
Although Sagit completed a slightly rushed emotional journey in the final episode, at the end of which she learned to look at herself and her parents differently, the true magic of the series lies in Gitit Fisher. Thanks to the prickly character, brilliant monologues, and her unique language, even the heavy and predictable moments became funny, engaging, and touching.
The inevitable end point has arrived: the seven episodes of "Bodeket" have concluded, and Sagit — played by Gitit Fisher — has completed a full circle and arrived at life itself. "I have truly changed," she swore to Ofer, an airport security officer (the wonderful Uri Alvi), with whom she had an utterly illogical romance. She concluded with insights like "Only the people we truly love can change us" and "There is nothing in this life worth living without a heart." Every word is true, and yet, the Sagit of seven episodes ago would have thrown a Crocs sandal full of ash at this Sagit.
The night before, she gave a moving speech about people who remained immature even at an older age because their parents failed in their main role, which is to help them ripen. In my humble opinion, this is the most significant message around which the series was built. Even earlier, in the sixth episode, she was forced to make a rather crude choice between supporting the guy she is in love with or going to hold her father's hand while he was having an anxiety attack. She chose her father on autopilot, but this time, unlike previous times, she looked her mistake in the eye and left him to recover on Dani Basan's deck.
Undoubtedly, Sagit has come a long way. She has undergone a process, understood life, and moved from telling everyone what is wrong with them to asking what is actually wrong with her. She realized that cynicism is not a personality but a defense mechanism, and that avoidance is not a solution but a reduction. She understood that her father is a difficult person (and sorry, Tsahi Grad, you really made him extremely unpleasant), that her mother will never admit the mistakes she made, and that her parents are just two children who did not grow up. She had to grow herself up, and what can you do, children don't know how to grow themselves up. The technology doesn't exist.
Sagit doesn't curse so much anymore — she doesn't need to because the circle is closed and the redemption is complete. She is setting out on a new path. And if you hear some bitterness in my voice, it's in your imagination. I have no problem with the fact that Sagit skipped between stations of a Disney movie with a sailor's mouth and understood things that are explained in a psychology degree, only to eventually explain them to the people around her and to the viewers. Because in the end, "Bodeket" contained the truly important X-factor that made it a series that could be watched endlessly: it had Gitit Fisher, the character she played, and the language she used to say all of this.
So even when Sagit was vulgar and prickly to a level that made me wonder how far one can push the meaning of a flawed character, then came a monologue from the family of "guys want a beautiful woman so she can be evidence that they have a big dick," and the wait became worthwhile with the flick of three lines of script. Sagit's life may be desperate, but whoever does a "Being John Malkovich" inside her consciousness will be rewarded, and big time. And maybe that's what turned "Bodeket" from what on paper looked like a heavy and misanthropic series into an engaging series that is easy to fall in love with. In the next season, please, one or two more episodes, even if it means going low-cost.
