With mother Darren Aronofsky!, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, and the chaotic thriller by Chafdi Brothers, Uncut Gems.
In Anela’s electrifying drama Caria Surge, Joseph experiences a very modern fantasy: he impulsively quits his job and raids a bank. For Joseph, a ticking bomb played by Ben Wishaw, his job is to scan and unload passengers at Stansted Airport. It’s annoying, repetitive, and above all, annoying. Without secrecy, Joseph was constantly watched by the overseers; in response to stray strangers, he maintains a positive, albeit calm, appearance.
Instead of blowing, he gnawed at a glass of water while his gums bled. At home, where he lives alone, a seemingly unsociable introvert spends his time with Michael McIntyre’s attitude videos – which we all agree is the point.
And then Joseph clicked.
After Joseph bullied his co-workers and interrupted his shift, Joseph waved around Hackney as if he was remaking the music video for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” Then Joseph walked to the bank in a hurry, pretended to have a gun, and took the money without trying to hide his face from video surveillance. We’ve seen someone ruin their life in real-time – and then Joseph just robbed another bank.
While it sounds cathartic to act like a character from the video game Grand Theft Auto, Surge points out that Joseph is on the verge of capture, if not death, at any moment. Whether he dares to barge in with a drunk or speed through traffic with a stolen helmet without a helmet, Joseph’s behavior is so erratic that you almost forget that the police are after him.
Thanks to the sight of the residents’ conflicting voices moving from ear to ear and the nervous energy radiating from Whishaw’s restless and trembling body, there was hardly any time to breathe. “It’s a reaction to what it’s like to live in a big metropolis like London,” said Karia, a director included in Netflix’s Top Boy and a companion to Reese Ahmed’s “The Long Goodbye.” “Millions of people live very close together in this rather cold, cruel, and exhausting system.
It’s an endless combination of fear and numbness. You think about the origins of our species and where we arrived in the modern world, and it doesn’t feel like a smooth or loving environment in which there is. What goes deeper is much less thought about.