Soccer team the Haifa Maccabees do well in their local league of various schools and this is down a little to the enthusiastic way that unused sub Yaron commentates on the games from the sidelines. When he finally gets a chance to play himself, Yaron panics and runs to his own goal and backpasses into his own net. He cannot let his football-mad father know though and instead lies to him so they can continue to share his football passion. This works fine while Yaron's father is unable to come to games due to his work schedule but could the relationship withstand the truth?
Personal Goals is a very slight and simple film and this is not totally a good thing. The plot sees a son trying to make his father proud of him by telling lies that make him out to be a great player and passionate about football. While this is partly true we do see that his father's enthusiasm for this is a big factor in the lie continuing. Of course this will be pulled away to reveal the truth at some point and then we will see what happens. The film goes this way as you expect it to and ultimately it also ends as you expect it to, which made me wonder why it took so long to do it and why it had soft emotional music playing as if to suggest it was doing something touching and meaningful as opposed to just doing what was to be expected. The delivery of the expected path is only so-so as well, which is a problem when doing the obvious.
The father and son are OK but again a bit one dimensional; in particular the lie being pulled away is filled of shots of the father "looking sad", and from there we don't get too much else expect the inevitable acceptance of his son for who he is and the understanding of why his son told the lie for so long. It is a nice message but it is not particularly well delivered even though it does have some nice humor in there. It needed to be more than it was, but it never manages to get anywhere but the expected and obvious delivery and path that we know it will be on.
Personal Goals is a very slight and simple film and this is not totally a good thing. The plot sees a son trying to make his father proud of him by telling lies that make him out to be a great player and passionate about football. While this is partly true we do see that his father's enthusiasm for this is a big factor in the lie continuing. Of course this will be pulled away to reveal the truth at some point and then we will see what happens. The film goes this way as you expect it to and ultimately it also ends as you expect it to, which made me wonder why it took so long to do it and why it had soft emotional music playing as if to suggest it was doing something touching and meaningful as opposed to just doing what was to be expected. The delivery of the expected path is only so-so as well, which is a problem when doing the obvious.
The father and son are OK but again a bit one dimensional; in particular the lie being pulled away is filled of shots of the father "looking sad", and from there we don't get too much else expect the inevitable acceptance of his son for who he is and the understanding of why his son told the lie for so long. It is a nice message but it is not particularly well delivered even though it does have some nice humor in there. It needed to be more than it was, but it never manages to get anywhere but the expected and obvious delivery and path that we know it will be on.
