Everywhere, everyone you ask, has already seen The Snooker Party. Once you ask, "Have you seen The Snooker Party?", there's no turning back; they'll endlessly quote key phrases and distortedly try to act and mimic Zeev Revach, who plays a small time crook by the name of Hanuka, second to the key-roll. The main character, they'll
all tell you, is Yehuda Barkan.
Now, said Prof. Vered Shimoni Yasu'r, a new appointed researcher and leactuerer at the Film and Cinematography Department Studies at Ben Gurion University,
this is when things start, she says,
to get interesting. Her voice hangs in the air, as if she could control another, second, and different voice, a deeper voice which is always and only active behind the original, dull, voice.
They would never point at Gavriel or Azriel, she says,
never point them out as the main characters, she says, never Gavriel and never—not once—not Azriel, no, she says,
they'll unanimously point at one single direction, her undervoice crescendos, always the same, they'll point at Yehuda Barkan – the actor himself, leaving the character out, the actor who plays both parts, both Gavriel and Azriel, and they completely forgot about the character, she says. This phenomena, she explains, this sociological phenomena, is more literary and sociological and more sociological then literary.
It appeases a certain suspension, she says, a certain tension that was put solely on Barkan's shoulders.
By pinpointing Yehuda Barkan as the main character, The Snooker Party recieves an OK-message in the third dimension. The movie, she explains, becomes reality, part of reality and reality itself, and as-such, she says, The Snooker Party influences
as a person, as a real non-fictional person, as a real-thing and not as a movie, it influences on its surroundings.
That is why we can say, that once The Snooker Party was released, it existed as a movie for a very short period of time; after this short period of time, she says, when the movie became successful, it was transformed and thus, she concludes,
vanished.
This whole matter was, as I realized yesterday, all forgotten on my part. I have forgot all about have let it slide. Not only I have forgotten about it and not only I have let it slide, I have replaced this memory with fragments of other memories who were, consequently, different forgotten memories, on which I had never had prior knowledge to begin with.
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