Flee

A privileged white colonization of foreign suffering made to accompany ethnic buffets and craft beer. Flee utterly resigns itself to appealing to anyone other than those who are already softened by the film before they see it and thus apparently quite oblivious to how poorly dramatized and lazily animated it is while watching it. The 2 frames per second maximum and the live-action shots at moments that would clearly require more animation work suggest that someone here was very lazy and very much wanted to have it done so they could be touring festivals with it already. Now some people are automatically excited about an animated documentary about a gay refugee from Kabul and others are disgusted at how a film about a sex refugee from Kabul could still get nominated for something, without either of them ever having had a reason to see the film. This hasn't helped anyone except the filmmakers. Personally, I'd be happy to take all the refugees in the world anywhere they want if only to get away from these films. I’m adding a star for the raw documentary footage of the coup in Afghanistan and post-communist Moscow. (2022-05-03)