``In This World'' A fiction that erodes reality. A documentary style that goes beyond reality

Documentary-like fiction that erodes reality

Jamal and Enayatullah, who played the two main characters, are also named Jamal and Enayatullah in the movie. No, rather than the title of the role, he is playing himself to the fullest. They are real refugees with no acting experience, and Jamal was born in a refugee camp and grew up only knowing the surrounding area. Winterbottom said: ``Jamal himself said he was 14 or 15, but they don't celebrate birthdays so I don't know exactly.''

Jamal was chosen because he was smart, attentive, and spoke English. Enayatullah, on the other hand, cannot speak English, and although he is an older chaperone, he is not very helpful during the journey. This was the director's intention to create an erratic relationship in which young Jamal takes the initiative. The two are not actually cousins, and it can be said that Winterbottom's greatest preparation was to create this fictional duo.

Most of the events depicted in the film are based on real-life experiences taken by Winterbottom and screenwriter Tony Grisoni on research trips beforehand. The small film crew of less than 10 people retraced the route from Pakistan to Britain, sometimes relying on human smugglers to help refugees Jamal and Enayatullah cross the border. For the scene where the film is being inspected by armed groups on the way, we asked the soldiers who were actually conducting the inspection to appear.

What's interesting is that Winterbottom and his colleagues had expected the story to be ``captured by a family that they met on the Turkish border and end up in a predicament,'' but they only found a very kind family there, and in the end, they ended up being kind to the locals. This is an episode in which a scene where he is exposed. What a flexible and free way to make a film that can become black or white depending on the reality in front of you.

Winterbottom originally thought it would be a great road movie to see refugees traveling vast distances in search of a new world. However, even when he actually interviewed the refugees and observed Jamal and Enayatullah, they seemed surprisingly uninterested in the process of the journey.

For them, ``travel'' is just a journey to reach a destination. Knowing this, Winterbottom decided to match the tone of the film to the tension between Jamal and Enayatullah himself. As a result, ``In This World'' has almost no tourist movie aspect to it. Jamal, a goofball, keeps telling jokes, and Enayatullah, expressing confusion and anxiety, just continues to move according to the smuggler's instructions. The sense that time passes slowly and calmly despite being exposed to harshness and danger is something that traditional feature films do not have.

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