Moor (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #36 extract: Moor (2015)

I found a little bit of trouble in following Moor's plot, but, with help from my girlfriend, managed to work my way through this despite some terrible subtitles. 

This is a film both about corruption in rural Pakistan that is thematically linked to generational rifts between sons, fathers, mothers and the land through an intricately designed plot driven by the incredibly significant symbol of the train. Incredibly shot and edited, Moor is highly evocative but can sometimes fail to immerse you into the narrative and dramaturgy because of its complexity. Nonetheless, with a second watch, I feel that Moor would be far more striking. After this first watch, all I can then emphasise is the technical and aesthetic wonder of Moor.