"Border" seems to be a typical fairy tale routine in which the ugly duckling turns into a swan. However, the plot of the film unexpectedly embarked on a place that the audience did not expect. It just turned a fairy tale completely into a dark-colored story. Adult fables, although many of the plots are weird or even bizarre, the director can always use abundant and real character emotions to bring the almost derailed plot back to the right track.
The film combines bizarre fairy tales, folklore, detective mission dramas, love tragedies, and existential dramas with multiple genres and elements. It is a masterpiece full of imagination and excitement for the audience.
"Border" is a mixed genre film, giving the audience the most direct feeling-thrilling beauty. Director Ali Abbasi combines supernatural folklore with modern social realism to create this fable that explores the profound themes of tribalism, racism, and the exclusivity shared by humans, and puts it in various countries around the world. It all possesses considerable epochal importance and insights.
"Border" is an alternative thriller about a Swedish customs officer who has a unique ability to always accurately identify smuggled goods and faces the ultimate test of what is justice and what is evil. The film is a smorgasbord full of wisdom. It combines romance films, Nordic crime films, social realism films, and supernatural horror films into one. It is a bold challenge and subversion to the film genre.
