Everyone is sleeping with Netflix’s last suspense movie, but I loved its “Danish murder mystery in Borneo”
Undoubtedly, Netflix is one of the spoiled platforms of streaming lovers and is largely due to its extensive catalog, which allows you to continue discovering “jewels” even after its launch, one of them is Borderless Fog, a thriller of Murders set in Borneo, on the other side of the border between Indonesia and Malaysia.
It is worth mentioning that -you don’t even have enough criticisms to have a score in Rotten Tomatoes yet. Follow the inspector Sanja (Puteri Marino, who is great) as a new detective, unmistakable for her curly hair and her pink sunglasses prescribed by the doctor, while investigating a strange decapitated corpse abandoned on the border between the two countries, which has a head … but the wrong head.
What follows is a surprisingly dense and thematically interesting mystery that has the dark tones, the motivations of the morally confusing characters and vibrations of a whole Danish series of murders such as The Killing or The Bridge, but compressed in less than two hours .. and yet it is not impossible to continue. It is not satisfactory enough to enter the list of the best Netflix films, but as a connoisseur of the medium -level detective suspense genus, I had a great time with her, and I would love to watch an annual film by Inspector Sanja in the one that contemplates with bad humor beautiful and ominous jungle landscapes.
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Borderless Fog begins with a beautiful scene of “a piece of life in Borneo”, before the body starts the mystery with a literal explosion (in a tin roof) and falls on the border between the two countries. The film goes directly on the issues that will support the whole story, since two police forces discuss that the other must be occupied based on the placement of the border, and the disagreement not only reaches the point of measuring its distance from the exact border , but then question where the border is really here, in the middle of the jungle.
The general theme of the film is the things that are between two fields, without ever fitting in any of them. The first body is a headed head and torso, which falls on the border between two countries, and will be investigated by a maladapped police officer who struggles to fit in the field, associated with someone who grew up with tribal radicals but became a policeman And it is not totally accepted by either side … the film does not want simple archetypes, which also helps anyone who seems simply good or bad instantly wakes up your suspicions, because nothing is so simple here in the fog, where The cutting planes of ominous native trees monitor the forest as veiled gods.
All this also leads us to the dense series of plots that are happening here. Once we have introduced ourselves in the previous concepts, we will have to deal with a victim of a crime that can be a sacrificial murder of false flag, a head of the local crime, a communist hero who lives in a forest that can or may not be folklore , kidnapped children on a survival excursion through the jungle, and Sanja facing their boss for their apparent corruption or incompetence … and that is not spoilers, because everything happens in the first half of the film. Although I admit that I lost some threads, the fact that I could follow the plot when it is thicker than the foliage of the Borneo jungle is a testimony of film solidity.
Sometimes it also has a great appearance, with a palette of turned off and landscapes that give the feeling of being a Scandinavian criminal drama transplanted to the Southeast Asia, while occasionally adds some kinetic energy: a brief sequence of ships seems taken directly from a Michael Mann movie, and I would have liked the movie to have more of that style. The director, Edwin, has been awarded on other occasions and gets the film attractive whatever happens.
All this also leads us to the dense series of plots that are happening here. Once we have introduced ourselves in the previous concepts, we will have to deal with a victim of a crime that can be a sacrificial murder of false flag, a head of the local crime, a communist hero who lives in a forest that can or may not be folklore , kidnapped children on a survival excursion through the jungle, and Sanja facing their boss for their apparent corruption or incompetence … and that is not spoilers, because everything happens in the first half of the film. Although I admit that I lost some threads, the fact that I could follow the plot when it is thicker than the foliage of the Borneo jungle is a testimony of film solidity.
Sometimes it also has a great appearance, with a palette of turned off and landscapes that give the feeling of being a Scandinavian criminal drama transplanted to the Southeast Asia, while occasionally adds some kinetic energy: a brief sequence of ships seems taken directly from a Michael Mann movie, and I would have liked the movie to have more of that style. The director, Edwin, has been awarded on other occasions and gets the film attractive whatever happens.
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