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The Facility (DVD)
Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Skye Lourie, Oliver Coleman, Chris Larkin, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Horror in which a clinical trial at a remote facility goes terribly
wrong. Among those who sign up to test ProSyntrex's latest drug
Pro9 are Adam (Aneurin Barnard), Joni (Alex Reid), Carmen (Skye
Lourie) and Jed (Oliver Coleman). The trial is highly secret, with
no-one, including the staff who administer injections, aware of who
is receiving the drug and who is in the placebo group. Shortly
after the trial begins it becomes clear that something has gone
wrong. There are unexplained disappearances, bizarre silhouettes
and screaming from behind locked doors. Locked inside the facility,
unaware of the true nature of events, the surviving patients and
staff must band together to try and find a way out of the
nightmare.
Unconventional urban drama written and directed by Sally El
Hosaini. Rashid (James Floyd) wants more for his younger brother,
Mo (Fady Elsayed), than the life Rashid has furnished himself on
the gangland streets of Hackney. Although heavily involved with a
local gang, Rashid saves the money he gains by selling drugs as a
way of hopefully putting Mo through college. However, Mo admires
his older brother and wants to follow in his footsteps; but when he
becomes involved with the gang himself, Mo becomes victim to a
mugging as a result. Throughout the film, the two brothers are
forced to confront their respective identites while struggling to
survive on the streets of London.
Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity
arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial
Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid
competition for belonging, political power, and control over
natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to
spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and
sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals
alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others,
interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally
challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning
interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self. Through a rich
ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and
Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect
Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience
selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial
past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the
nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial
discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary
suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates
self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical
ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.
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