The Long Goodbye

This is a very good one. Powerful, meaningful, shocking, urgent and with that star power of Riz Ahmed. British society is not a perfect one - is there any? - and even with all the integration and diversity, these pieces of s:it are well among us.

Don't care about people who think the police officers shouldn't be portrayed like this. Police forces are full of racists scumbags in any part of the globe. Yes, there are good cops. That's not the point. Move on.

A manifesto against racist hate and against complicity of authorities to a form of encouragement of brutal expressions of exclusion.

A confession, in same measure.

A recapitulation of an attitude of fear and vulnerability and abuse against the other.

A large family and its prepaires for a happy event. Paramilitary in neighborhood. And brutal intervantions against people . Pure racism at the first sight.

But the final part is a good demonstration about little more . Riz Ahmed proposes a large - precise portrait of the relations, source of hate, integration in British society , history of U. K. and the premises of global society, out of race or origin of ancesters.

In short, just a powerful film.

A great short film, really worthy of an Oscar, full of small details that to the most inattentive eyes the construction of the narrative goes unnoticed, which seems distant and absurd, but very real in several countries (especially the rich ones who explored several other countries in Africa and South America). The final speech that brings a strong message, against racism, xenophobia and all kinds of prejudice is the highlight of this short.

Happy that Riz Ahmed won his first Oscar, he deserved it, the short film is really impactful, even for me who is Brazilian and in our country this xenophobia against people from other countries is not so strong.

Going back to the early beginnings of "cinema" yes cinema. The art of storytelling was intended to be a visual expression. You cannot get more visual than the ethnic class or the color of peoples skin, race or creed. This is an "ism" that's existed from the beginning of time. This movie short does exactly what a film should convey and personify. Love it or hate it, One cannot ignore the message.

These kind of politically charged short films are getting old. And by "these kind" I mean the ones that hyperbolize very real social conflicts with nothing new to say.

It's a well made short film though... Well acted, well shot, well edited, well graded... Also kinda murky on the Sound Design but not too distracting.

But yea, overall... 5/10.