The View From Above
Told by its characters from a black void. After a terrorist bombing, intelligence officer Helena Brennan is tasked with gathering information about the radical Muslim cleric - al Sharif. On travelling to Pakistan, she becomes involved in a botched mission to capture one of al Sharif’s key lieutenants. One of her colleagues is murdered and another is kidnapped and executed as Helena’s world disintegrates around her. She must hunt down the perpetrators to find redemption. Asks spectators to confront the brutal, misogynist and white-supremacist ideologies of the stories we consume as entertainment. It reveals the role that so many contemporary thrillers force audiences to play and invites them to regret learning their lines.
