Wednesday 15 November 2017

The other side of hope notes

Notes from the film that From Form recommended us to watch; The other side of hope. Released in 2017.

-No dialogue in the first 6 minutes
-Old fashioned aesthetic
-Old couple and busker at the start
-Minimal dialogue makes it more intriguing?
-Follows a refugee and how he copes with everyday life settling into Finland, his journey in getting to know the city (Khaled is his name)
-Main character is very distressed all through the film because of his situation
-Meets another refugee in a cell
-His family died back in Syria; hard time for him
-Talks about the journey from Syria to Finland
-Trying to find his sister; he lost her un Hungary on his way to Finland when a riot broke out and he got put in jail
-Shirt sales man
-Meets a lot of the wrong people while in Finland; makes it dangerous for him, suffers racist attacks
-About to get deported back to Syria as he doesn't get granted access to Finland
-Manages to escape the refugee centre with the help of a woman that works there; now illegally living there
-Tries to look for a way out; asks for help
-Liberation army Finland tried to set Khalid on fire
-Rich man helped him and gave him a job
-Finds his sister in the end with help from others that he meets
-Khaled has a conversation with his sister about their family and how they're the only once in their family left; Khaled's sister wants to go to the police station to turn herself in
-Gets stabbed in the end by the dodgy men that attack him regularly
-Makes sure his sister gets asylum


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