Yoni had a brilliant idea for a documentary. He’d knock on doors with a small camera in hand, asking, “If you found a talking goldfish that granted you three wishes, what would you wish for?”
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With some decent footage, he was sure he’d be able to sell it to Channel 8 or Discovery in a flash, either as a film or as a collection of vignettes.
If the project is going to have any weight, I'm going to have to get to everyone, to the unemployed, to the ultra-religious, to the Arabs and Ethiopians and American expats.
Yoni grabbed his camera and went out knocking on doors. In the first neighborhood he went to, the nice people that took part generally requested the obvious things: health, money, bigger houses, or to shave off a couple of years.
But there were also powerful moments. One drawn, wizened old lady asked simply for a child.
Yoni thought to himself that if the project was to have any weight he would need to interview everyone.
Sergei Goralick doesn’t like when strangers bang on his door. Especially when those strangers ask him questions. It reminds him of his childhood Ii Russia, people frequently knocked on his door and it was usually the KGB looking to cause trouble.