Iniquity
2021 · 23m · United Kingdom
Directed by Oliver Goodrum
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Michael is starting over with a new relationship and a job in a town where no one knows him — until his name returns to the news.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a competent thriller about a guy running from his past — fine setup, but the execution plays it totally straight when the premise begs for a twist that actually earns the tension; this is exactly the kind of by-the-book crime drama that makes scouts like me roll my eyes.
Goodrum's command of tone and pacing situates itself squarely in the British social realist tradition, with a screenplay that understands restraint as formal virtue — the quiet accumulation of dread feels deliberately positioned against the genre's louder impulses.
There's a specific decision here — the way Goodrum lets silence and mundane routine carry more weight than the inevitable revelation — that transforms what could've been a generic fugitive story into something genuinely unsettling with minimal compositional fuss.