Word: enayatullah
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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...
...This World is a road movie?a Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan ?migr?; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo) went along for the ride, often improvising dialogue with people the boys met. At times the danger seems real: rifle fire at a Turkish border, captured on infrared film, comes perilously close to the two boys?and the crew. Did the film put the lads at risk? This is an expos? that occasionally smacks...
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