Depicting some of the most monstrous, cold-blooded criminals outside of Gomorrah, Edmund Yeo’s Aqerat (We the Dead) paints a blood-curdling picture of the human traffickers infesting the border between Thailand and Malaysia. Into their clutches fall boatload after boatload of hapless Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in their native Myanmar. A local girl saving up to make a new life for herself in Taiwan also falls into their hands, becoming one of them, the photographer of their atrocities.
Does it sound edge-of-seat? Not this film; at least, not most of it. Like Yeo’s first feature, River of Exploding Durians, Aqerat is...
Does it sound edge-of-seat? Not this film; at least, not most of it. Like Yeo’s first feature, River of Exploding Durians, Aqerat is...
- 11/9/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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