Last Sunday evening I was surfing Amazon/Prime looking for something to watch that was relatively short and well rated · And I came across District· So it wasn't the two sentence plot that led me to it , but the length· It took a while for the WASP-boy in me to get into it, but when I did, I found it immersive· It turned out to be perhaps the best film I've see so far in 2018·
I was surprised to find that District has been mostly ignored by the film critic establishment· Even queer focused reviewers have so far largely ignored it· Perhaps "a place where plenty of shit goes down like gangbangin, drug dealin, killin, a place where you wouldnt want to be" [UrbanDictionary] is not a place where most of the film making elite (and not so elite), straight or queer, are comfortable.