LIMBO is an offbeat observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the results of their asylum claims. I’m rating this 7/10.Curated global streaming service and theatrical distributor MUBI have acquired UK and Irish rights to Ben Sharrock’s idiosyncratic and timely cross-cultural satire LIMBO. You’ll get there and get an inkling of what it’d be like to be in that position in your own life. The feeling of being in some weird no man’s land is the point. The apparent randomness of people’s actions is the point. I actually considered maybe leaving but thankfully decided to see it through. By the fifteen minute mark I wasn’t connecting with the story, the characters, or anything.
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His one flatmate had delusions of grandeur about becoming a professional football player but most just aspire to at best survive and live in some level of comfort in the UK.Īs I said it had a very slow and awkward start. They were wealthy enough to have a house with an apricot orchard and to not want for much. How desperate would I need to be to subject myself to that process? How do you not lose hope when you are there waiting months and years with no insight into where the bureaucratic machinery is in its processes? How does one adjust to the reality that whatever level of prominence and success you had before is now gone forever and the reality of your future even if asylum is granted being orders of magnitude more meager? Omar was from a successful musician family in Syria. As it went on I got more a feeling of being embedded in the world with them.
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The movie got off to a very slow and awkward start, probably intentionally. Omar was a musician back home but he doesn’t feel the urge to play at all, even though he carry’s the family heirloom instrument around with him everywhere he goes. It doesn’t feel like living but really just existing. Meanwhile Omar’s brother is still back in Syria fighting, vacillating between telling them it’s safe enough that they should all come back and help with the fight and being scared for the first time in his life. We learn that his parents are also in a refugee camp in another country. The last, the one who we know has been there for nearly three years, had his request accepted. Over the course of the movie Omar’s flat mates go from three down to zero while he waits his turn to determine his own fate. The drudgery and hopelessness of it all permeates the whole film.
The movie has a very “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”įeel to it. We only learn of one character’s duration of stay there so far which has been almost three years. Otherwise most of their time is spent whiling away time waiting for their applications to be processed. They get cultural education to help with the introduction to UK society if they are released. They get meager money to buy the essentials of life.
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The “camp” is a series of small houses where four or more people share the space. The UK government has a refugee “camp” on a tiny island in Scotland. Has been waiting months for his asylum process to get processed by the UK. Covers the story of a Syrian immigrant stuck in the asylum process in Scotland along with several other asylum seekers from around the world.
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