Oh dear

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2020)

A group of (albeit highly talented) exclusively white, non-disabled actors attempt to convince us that they comprise a whole community brought together by extreme hardship. Stereotypes (including portrayals of the 'pretty, plucky blind girl' by a sighted actor, and the tormented, and ultimately dangerous intellectually disabled young man by a non intellectually disabled actor) abound and indeed, in the end, define the film which cannot therefore deliver on the wonderfully eerie atmosphere that it manages at first to create. Individual films cannot on their own be 'representative'. That's a property that is to be judged across an industry. But, honestly, this one really does represent an approach to story telling that we would do well to leave behind.