Ian Sorby

If I had to summarise this movie in one word it would be the racial slur “Choc-ice”, an epithet so offensive that it manages to insult two racial communities simultaneously. The movie does an excellent job of building tension by social discomfort but does nothing to steer the viewer in any direction, a hand-grenade thrown into an emotionally charged but important debate. If this movie were used as a springboard to sympathetic and intelligent discourse on race, class, gender, privilege and mental health then it is genius, however I fear in modern society that it will be used to reinforce innate prejudices. Is the movie “tripe”, “trope” or merely a “tragedy”? I had an immediate visceral dislike of how dangerous and insulting the movie was, but then I’ve rarely thought so much after a movies end… and I’m writing my first movie review… 😃