We saw it yesterday and DAMN... its amazing. It takes horror and use it as a vehicle, not an end goal and it is brutal. If you're from Europe the Mediterranean as the corpse filled moat to Festung...
We saw it yesterday and DAMN... its amazing. It takes horror and use it as a vehicle, not an end goal and it is brutal. If you're from Europe the Mediterranean as the corpse filled moat to Festung Europa is obviously well known and the visuals, the dreamlike, magical reality, visuals from that is just... I guess it must be what watching Get Out is for White people from the US.
It tells the story of a immigrant couple in the UK having fled the wars in South Sudan and now trying to get a permanent VISA/Asylum and slogging through the inhuman immigration process while haunted by the past revealed in beautifully shot snippets of nightmare and reality.
The characters are utterly human too and it never ever ever felt in any way preachy - which killed me even more.
There is a scene when the man who wants to fit in, who have paid so much of his humanity to get there, looks at an ad with a white family in leisure wear and then buys it constantly stalked by a security guard. Or when he smiles a forced smile sitting alone in a striplighting-blue and beige walled immigration office as the only black person and his smile is like a white scar on his face saying "we're good people" like a mantra.
I can not recommend it enough. Its only downside is that if you expect a classic horror movie, with all the trimmings, this isn't for you. If you want real human drama, the horror both supernatural and so cruelly realistic (and happening every day IRL) - this is for you.
We saw it yesterday and DAMN... its amazing. It takes horror and use it as a vehicle, not an end goal and it is brutal. If you're from Europe the Mediterranean as the corpse filled moat to Festung Europa is obviously well known and the visuals, the dreamlike, magical reality, visuals from that is just... I guess it must be what watching Get Out is for White people from the US.
It tells the story of a immigrant couple in the UK having fled the wars in South Sudan and now trying to get a permanent VISA/Asylum and slogging through the inhuman immigration process while haunted by the past revealed in beautifully shot snippets of nightmare and reality.
The characters are utterly human too and it never ever ever felt in any way preachy - which killed me even more.
There is a scene when the man who wants to fit in, who have paid so much of his humanity to get there, looks at an ad with a white family in leisure wear and then buys it constantly stalked by a security guard. Or when he smiles a forced smile sitting alone in a striplighting-blue and beige walled immigration office as the only black person and his smile is like a white scar on his face saying "we're good people" like a mantra.
I can not recommend it enough. Its only downside is that if you expect a classic horror movie, with all the trimmings, this isn't for you. If you want real human drama, the horror both supernatural and so cruelly realistic (and happening every day IRL) - this is for you.