Ali Abbasi
Border (creature di confine)

An Iranian (then thirty-seven years old) in 2018 makes a film in Sweden based on the story “Border” published thirteen years earlier by a Swedish horror writer named John Ajvide Lindqvist (who, coincidentally, was thirty-seven when he wrote it) known as the Scandinavian Stephen King.

Tina is a police officer who works at customs where every day men and women with suitcases and travel bags pass by, her job is to stop the suspects and she performs her duties diligently, her peculiarity is to identify those who possess surplus alcohol, and various drugs hidden in their luggage or on themselves, through a highly developed sense, namely smell, and she rarely makes mistakes.

Her instinct, beyond ordinary human feeling, allows her to sense the shame, anger, or fear of the people who approach her.

Until one day she meets Vore, a being similar to her (allegedly belonging to the Trolls) and... the rest you will discover only by watching the film.

In the various shots, you can see fantastic Nordic landscapes, sometimes rainy and misty, with their woods and ponds, and the often gloomy atmosphere does not foretell anything good, you are left baffled by what happens and cannot comprehend what you come to see.

There would be much to say about the different psychological, social, and sociological situations, but I am the least suitable person to draw conclusions in those terms and to manage to put them in writing.

I can only say that the ending, after what seemed like the ending, is unexpected and leaves you quite baffled, and that's it...