Thirty years ago, it was possible to imagine director Agnieszka Holland's Green Border having [an] impact. Today, like Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, it may temporarily prick the Hollywood conscience before becoming just another entertainment choice offered for a few months by your favorite streaming service.
As the family is shuttled back and forth across the barbed-wire fence separating Western Europe' from Belarus, they're subjected to cruel and abusive treatment by guards on both sides. Indeed, the mistreatment is systemic: A Polish officer proclaims that refugees aren't people; they are weapons of Putin and Lukashenko, bullets aimed at the heart of white Europe.
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