THE DAY SHALL COME
****
Dir: Christopher Morris (15, 87 mins)
The caustic brain behind groundbreaking TV shows The Day Today and Brass Eye returns to the screen nine years after the brutal satire Four Lions with another incendiary look at hypocrisy. Based on ‘a hundred true stories’, Morris takes us to poverty-stricken Miami where self-styled leader Moses (Marchant Davis) is seeking a race war with his brigade of followers. He is no real threat: he has a handful of acolytes, no money, is off his medication and believes God and Satan speak to him through a duck. This does not deter the FBI from making him a fall guy, and careerist agent Anna Kendrick targets him for a sting operation, where he is coerced into even greater proclamations of violence despite his incompetence and mental health issues. What sounds on paper as a dark drama – FBI coerces individual to justify terrorism budget – is transformed into angry, frequently hilarious farce by Morris and co-writers Jesse Armstrong, Sean Gray and Tony Roche. The satire is focused and stark, culminating in a resonant climax, as Morris draws in his years of research, that shows how certain poverty-stricken groups are targeted and people imprisoned by the manipulation of others. Essential satirical farce delivered with precision.
Opens Oct 11
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