MEST 2: Double page spread feature

Transgression: Fulfil your deepest, darkest desires  

Four young film makers dare to challenge society through a camera lens.

Dark, intense, yet grippingly and breathtakingly mesmerising; something that is quite frankly rare and not what you would expect from an indie, ragtag cast/crew of ethnically diverse Greenford students. 

Jason is the newest member of an ordinary group of teenagers, but when he comes up with the idea of a "spin the bottle" game, the young friends are thrown into a journey that they have only imagined in their minds. Is Jason to be trusted? Are they playing a simple game or are they in fact playing with their lives? The screenplay is written and produced by an enthusiastically skilful writer Ladan Abdulle who masterfully presents to the audience the horrors of society and the inevitable yet hidden capacity for evil of the human mind through the eyes of a seemingly normal teenager. 

With its overly stylized use of violence, music, and striking imagery; Transgression is a brutal yet slick film that represents a fully realized vision of art house suspense, drama and action. Transgression has the talented young director Sunny Hassan at it's helm who masterfully creates a screenplay with great visual flair, in the style of Nicolas Winding Refn, with a little natural gruesome trauma and suspense but still retaining the beautiful iridescent cinematography. 

Along with it's low profile yet amazingly talented crew behind the camera, the film utilises and brings to the spot light many new rising stars in the acting industry; Izaaz Sayed, who plays the leading character Jason has charisma and a presence that is very subtlety layered with psychological estrangements that the audience do not realise until it is too late. His Oscar winning performance in Hassan's "The Equation" was one that left audiences around the globe on the edge of their seats and the doubtful critics speechless.

Combined with the strikingly golden imagery and the mellifluous sound design by Mandev Seahra and Rashida Dowding, movie goers will be comfortably numb with nostalgia until they are ultimately hit with a train wreck of shattering emotions that leaves them breathless and wanting more with every whisper of dialogue.

Without a doubt, this latest indie film is on it's way to become an absolute cult classic. It is the way that the visuals, sound and narrative come together on the silver screen that is both alluring and captivating to the audience.