the refugee crisis put into a digestible thriller/drama for mass audiences. the type of film people walk out of, feeling terrible yet their conscience is a little bit more relieved. hey, at least you're on the right side of history, huh?i see the need for a film like that, affect wise, somehow - morally questionable as his paddling in the swimming pool of hypocrisy might be. the only decision to critique on a larger scale though is passing over the political sphere, a willing ignoring of the decision makers, the ones having the biggest amount of blood on their hands. instead the piece concentrates on the tale of the evil smuggler (that - of course we get granted that much ambivalence - has a huge heart for his adopted refugee boy), the story that is perpetrated by governments to deflect from their own guilt, from the fact that their policies are significant for the amount of deaths in the open sea. guess it would be hard to get a proper funding for a film that zeros in on authorities and the powerful though, huh?!
