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Big Boy (2011)
Not easy but interesting
It has the form of a bad super-8 film and not really a plot. Nevertheless if you pay attention you get quite interesting bits. Like the selling of younger siblings or the exclusion of the main character just because he is poor. It's a description of a horrible childhood, in a horrible time at a horrible place. Like a child you don't have any explanations, you don't even know that things could or should be better. In a way this film is unique in bringing the dark side of our civilisation to live without moral, without blaming and shaming, without Western arrogance and (sadly) without class war.
Dheepan (2015)
England is not paradise
This film starts as a quite realistic piece about refugees in Paris and how live becomes shaped by crime and poverty.
But the last minutes of the film spoiled it for me. When the family finally arrive in London. Everything is fine. They live in a fine house, no more poverty und no crime. I mean seriously. This is London with the second highest murder rate in the EU (after Brussels) mostly involving people with no English origin (as victims and offenders). Refugees are forced to work below the minimum wages and to live in abendoned industrial sites. Where from time to time get burned because of no fire regulations. Even the officiel buildings for accommodation are not safe. Remember the burning skyscraper? They still do not know how many people died there. So England is a different country but the same s... So what the the message of this: Go to England so France has not to deal with refugees?