Exposing racism against minorities, the movie highlights the dangers of online misinformation.
The Big Picture From Philip Barantini, the director of Boiling Point — an acclaimed film best known for being staged in a virtuosic single take — comes Accused, a new thriller that looks just as pulse-pounding. The film’s first trailer was unveiled on Thursday, and it effectively teases a politically loaded story of a man who is falsely accused of a terrible crime, and subsequently hounded for it online and in real life.
Chaneil Kular stars as a young South Asian man named Harri, who leaves London one day to dog-sit for his parents in the countryside. But his excursion coincides with a terror attack at an Underground station. Harri doesn’t know it yet, but a series of rumors will paint him as the perpetrator of the attack, and he’ll be hounded by angry vigilantes braying for his blood.
Not only does the movie appear to be highlighting the dangers of online misinformation, it also exposes the racism that people from minority communities are so often subjected to. A helpless Harri urgently tries to clear his name, but soon, stray tweets turn into major news stories, and his face is plastered all over the internet and on TV. Before he knows it, his address and phone number are leaked, and Harri finds himself in a horrific siege-like situation in his parents’ house.
The Movie Exposes the Dangers of Online Misinformation Released in 2021, Boiling Point was a real-time dramatization of a nerve-wracking dinner service overseen by a volatile head chef played by Stephen Graham. Fans of the brilliant FX series The Bear will find lots to love about it. Boiling Point was just as acclaimed, scoring four nominations at the BAFTAs. A sequel television series, partially directed by Barantini, is also in the works.
False accusations mix with the wildfire spread of social media with deadly consequences when twenty-something Harri travels from the city to dog sit for his parents in the countryside. After being mistaken as the suspect of a train bombing in London, would-be heroes of the people track down his house, where Harri must prove his innocence to the online masses and defend his home and himself from the violent vigilantes.
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