Kitty's Corner

I went to see a new Danish movie yesterday. It was "The Escape" (Flugten), and it is about a Danish journalist, Rikke Lyngvig (played by Iben Hjejle). She is in Afghanistan to write about the life of the interpreters who help the Danish soldiers there.

She is taken hostage by Tal-E-Ban, who threaten to kill her unless Denmark withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. A young man, Nazir (Faigh Zamani) helps her escape. But he makes her promise that she will not mention his help when she gets home, because if his group finds out he helped her, they will kill him. She obviously agrees.

Rikke comes home and becomes a National heroine. She writes her story in the papers, is being interviewed in all kinds of media, and she keeps telling that she escaped on her own. She even writes a book about her experience, and her career takes a big step up.

In the meantime Nazir succeeds in escaping from his group in Afghanistan and travels through Europe, until he arrives in Denmark. Here he is placed in an asylum center, where he gets involved in an episode with the police. He escapes, and has no one but Rikke to turn to.

But will she help the man who held her hostage? And will she risk her new career and risk to be branded as a liar, by housing a political refugee?

This story isn't about terrorists, it's about how big a power the media is, and that every choice you make has consequences, one way or the other.


I think this was a cool movie, and the actors played well.

out of 6.