The Long Goodbye

6.694
Date

2020-03-06

Country

GB

Runtime

0.20h

Genre

Drama

Overview

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

Cast

Riz Ahmed
Riz
Hussina Raja
Aminah
Javed Hashmi
Dad
Sudha Bhuchar
Mum
Rish Shah
Karim

Poster

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Review

By CinemaSerf

A family and their friends are messing around at home when they are set upon by a gang of shotgun toting white racist thugs who have violently descended on their street. What ensues is truly abhorrent and would appear to happen with a degree of police complicity before quite a clever and intensely delivered piece of poetry from actor Riz Ahmed questioning who is who in the UK in 2020, and what is important in our double-standards ridden nation. The photography really effectively takes us to the heart of this scenario, almost as if we were there too, witnessing the atrocity. I do not believe this is a realistic reflection of something that could actually happen in Britain, nor do I believe that there are police officers who would permit this kind of brutal kerbside execution, but sometimes cinema needs extremes to provoke debate and responses - this is certainly food for thought.


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