DEnmark’s reputation as a place of tolerance, equality and comfort and contentment is directed and filled with novices Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm. Adrenaline and savvy super city thrillers were hit hard. “Shorta” means “police” in Arabic. At the beginning of the movie, the black teenager Talib Ben Hassi was lying face down, with a white policeman lying on his back. “I can’t breathe,” he pleaded. We never saw Talib again, but his name was repeated over and over again: on the streets of Svalegårdena, the fictional manor where he grew up; TV reporters reported on his condition in the intensive care unit; Police station restricting speeding.
Officials were warned to stay away from Svalegårdena, a gunpowder keg waiting to explode. The shift commander puts the very decent Jens (Simon Sears) in the car with the disgusting racist Mike (Jacob Howberg Roman), and Mike (Jacob Haoberg Roman) is a man who demands respect through bullying and intimidation. The script builds up these familiar police stereotypes and then messes them up-honestly, this is not convincing. Especially Jens, I found it difficult to grasp; in this film, the behavior of the characters makes the plot better than anything else. When Mike stopped to look for the cheeky Arab child Amos (Tariq Zayat), things went wrong. He forcibly broke in, humiliated Amos, and arrested him; just then, news of Talib’s death broke out and a riot was triggered.
Next is a classic and extremely effective behind-the-scenes movie: Police officers Jens and Mike are trapped in this concrete jungle composed of high-rise apartments, and are chased by a group of mopeds wearing balaclava hats. There are a lot of exciting moments, with some wrong annotations, some incredible coincidences, and some exposition dialogues explaining the film’s information, which is about how the two sides view each other. Amos’s mother said: “If you are always treated as something you don’t like, you will eventually believe it.” Her disillusioned son told a story when another child made up a story about him. The story of the knife when he was kicked out of a youth football team run by the police made this even better.
Shorta was released in cinemas on September 3.
