Borderless (2019)
9/10
Surprising and Effective
27 May 2019
Southern has a tremendous achievement with her second major documentary. If anyone can watch this documentary without being perched on the edge of their seat, they should be declared legally dead.

Southern gets out of the way of the story unfolding, and lets despairing refugees, human traffickers, and corrupt executives tell the tale in their own words. Whatever your best or worst intentions, the places that Borderless takes you will surprise you.

As a long-standing critic of Southern and the provocatively conservative viewpoints with which she was long aligned, I anticipated a bent and biased narrative, intertwined with a few disturbing facts to keep things grounded. I was wrong.

Borderless takes a compassionate but realistic look at what can only be described as a crisis forming at the edges of the Western world. Any argument that we're currently engaged in the most humane solution is crippled by the experiences of Turks, Gambians, Afghans, and many, many more.

If you don't let yourself see the truth of a sad and violent world that Borderless exposes, you're doing yourself a true disservice.

Watch it, and let the truth speak for itself.
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