Word: enayat
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Some 53,000 refugees are crammed into the Shamshatoo Afghan Refugee Camp in northwest Pakistan. Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his pal Enayat (Enayatullah) want to reduce that number by two. The teens' plan is to reach London, where Enayat has an uncle, by any means necessary: guile, smugglers, bribes. That border guard has a suspicious look?give him your Walkman...
...foot, bus, truck, ship?never knowing how long the trek will last or if they'll be shot, arrested or suffocated en route?and speed-learn the rudiments of new languages in the babel of countries they pass through. There's a sweet, sad scene in which Jamal teaches Enayat a few English words (snow, mountain) that would be of little use in England. And all this for what? If they do make it to London, they may be reduced to selling their organs for passports?an immigrant plight dramatized in last year's Dirty Pretty Things...
...simple fact, one of economics more than politics, is that poor people want to be where rich people live. Jamal and Enayat are tracing the immigrant journey that created the Americas and is now remaking the face of Europe. In that sense, and for all its flaws and unanswered questions, In This World is the great human epic, rewritten in headlines and heartbreak...
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