” — or as it’s been generically retitled in the United States, “Enforcement” — opens with a familiar “I can’t breathe” moment as a team of police scramble to restrain a 19-year-old Muslim man, suggesting that what happened to Eric Garner in Staten Island, and to George Floyd in Minneapolis, is hardly an America-specific problem.
Worth noting, as the movie does at the outset: “Shorta” is not a Danish word but an Arabic one, meaning “police.” The film asks audiences to identify with white cops Mike Andersen and Jens Høyer , but referring to them by the same derogatory phrase spray-painted across their patrol car underscores one of its key themes — namely, the question of how people from different communities see and describe one another.
What at first appears to be a standard good cop/bad cop dynamic is in fact the portrait of two antiheroes, whose instincts and inherent biases are constantly being tested as the power balance shifts over the day and night ahead. The pair enter Svalegården shortly before the unrest turns to full-on rioting, and as they approach, the widescreen frame rotates 180 degrees, a stylish yet effective way of foreshadowing how things are about to be upended.
Put aside the politics, and “Shorta” suggests a cross between “Assault on Precinct 13” and “Training Day” — a well-oiled genre machine whose loaded tagline could be “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” But co-directors Ølholm and Hviid don’t want us to turn our brains off. Amid they excitement, they create morally ambiguous situations by which to challenge their characters — and the audience.
that short plot description reads to me as: tv once again glorifies police brutality against protesters.
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