COMPLIANCE 2012
By
CRAIG ZOBEL
Common people are stupid. They have mortal fear of law and
its officers. But at least in India, people are quite aware of the rampant
corruption in the police department and of their own rights and are generally
not as compliant as Europeans and Americans are.
Compliance, as a film, and a mode of prank-cum-crime cannot
work in the East. To be very frank, cops disgust us, more than we fear them. No
Indian would go to such lengths to please an absentee cop as did Ann Dowd , the
store manager, in the film.
But these are the Americans for you.This crime was repeated 70
times across 30 states. Store owners ,or people in authority, strip-searched and
in some cases even sexually offended their employees as asked by a prankster on
a phone call. Some cinematic license must have been taken in the film, and there
are times when one does feel if a good idea has been stretched beyond a
point, but even then if what is depicted happened once, its beyond shocking !
Compliance is a two-room film, a tense psychological drama that drains you out. Acting and execution are very
professionally done and the small length of the film ensures that it retains its
watchability throughout.
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