Review of Sweet Mud

There aren't many pieces of art regarding life and suffering in kibbutzim. So any one that comes to describe one specific case of a kibbutz character, for good or for bad, can be charged as having the responsibility to support the kibbutz model as a whole – which is absurd. Any story that would describe in detail the perverse functioning of one specific family shouldn't be said to be undermining the fundamentals of traditional family model. Adama Meshuga'at makes a very sensitive clinic of the very possible perverse human attitudes which happen to occur within any common society but which may get a very own representation in a utopic socialist kibbutz, as a very much closed human group within itself, regarding it's very own history, geography, economy and culture – including the country of origin of its members, as we see in this particular movie with many Kibbutz members with French accent, possibly just by chance here. As there is a bunch of very much perverse families, anywhere in the world, there would have been most certainly a bunch of very specific kibbutzim where this perversity could have been very systematized, undermining very much its quality of life, determining illness and suffering. Some kibbutzim ended because almost none of their "children" would want to stay in there and only very old members who collectively owned everything and decided over everything, but couldn't work properly any more, were about to stay alone in there, unable to generate enough income to support themselves. If this movie had come about at the '70s, perhaps kibbutz life alternative would still endure, and we wouldn't have as now the baby thrown out with the bath's water - everything wonderful about life in a kibbutz ended because of unsolved systematic problems in its very own human system.