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The Flood: Touching and eye opening

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Marta Pereira by Marta Pereira
June 21, 2019
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The Flood: Touching and eye opening

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★★★★☆

In a time when the UK is closing in on itself, Curzon and Anthony Woodley  have tailored a beautiful tale of compassion, love and basic human decency .

Lena Heady, who plays the female lead, herself volunteers  in Refugee camps and her and crew have volunteered at the “Calais jungle” in order to help making this beautiful story.  The main character in the film is a young man from Eritrea, a refugee looking for shelter and in the UK, a country  that for people in this circumstances is considered a safe haven if not even “Heaven”. 

The film plays very well in portraying, even  if in a mild manner, all the things those who seek asylum  have to go through in order to have safety, peace  and  health.  This is not guaranteed, since even getting to the UK, you might not be allowed to remain and might be forced back to whatever evil you were trying to run away from.

Lena Heady  portraying a UK Border control officer is just brilliant as  someone who being a highly respected officer in her position and  having her own demons and personal issues, can still have empathy and realize who are the danger and who is genuinely  a victim, making her character both likeable and relatable to. Ivanno Jeremiah as the main character is touching  and amazing throughout his performance.

For me, The Flood’s idea is genuinely to break the misconception that most refugees are terrorists, criminals or just people looking for an easy life and to live out of social care benefits. This film is clearly to make us remember of how lucky we are for living  in this continent that is Europe, to be more empathic, but certainly,  to not judge a book by its cover and judge all to be the same.

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