FLEE: The Weight of Unspoken Truths

Flee is a Danish adult animated documentary that tells the story of a homosexual Afgan refugee whose alias is Amin Nawabi. The movie begins with an unsettling depiction of war and then the audience sees Amin trying to get ready to tell his story to a close friend who also films him to bring about a documentary. The movie is based on a true story and for safety purposes, the information about Amin is quite scarce and some names, as well as locations, are altered. During the unsettling depiction of war, as people are running away from the terrors of war, Amin's friend who is filming him asks him the question of what the word ''home'' means to him. Amin answers him by saying home is somewhere safe, somewhere you can stay and this answer pretty much epitomizes the torment of the refugees who are forced to leave their homes behind.

Amin at first doesn't have the strength the talk about his story, he takes a certain amount of time to build courage. This is because as the movie goes on we see that when he manages to flee to Denmark the human trafficker warns him not to talk about his family, that he should tell other people that his family is dead. This is why when he first tells his story Amin says that most of his family was killed and his sister was abducted. We can also see that later on, Amin didn't even tell his fiance about his real past and how his family is not dead but scattered all around Europe. Flee not only beautifully represents the silenced sufferings of the refugees but also exquisitely represents the hardships of LGBT members, especially LGBT members who come from conservative families and who think that this sexual orientation is a curable sickness.