Insecure (Qui Vive)

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Insecure (Qui Vive) is a film I chose to watch because of two things, a) the plot, b) Adele Exarchopoulos. The plot at Digiturk was listed as "a security guard likes a girl he met on the bus but he is too shy". This had nothing to do with the plot. Yes there is a security guard at a mall, yes there is a girl he met on the bus but that is about it. The film is about the security guard and an incident that changed his life and others. He is being bullied by a group of middle school age kids. They harass him constantly. He actually wants to be a nurse and has finally won the written exam at this fourth try. Meanwhile he meets this nice girl at the bus and they connect immediately and start to date. He really likes her too. He has a shady friend who he has grown up together in the same neighbourhood. This guy always asks him some tips regarding the mall schedule and he is up to no good. Our protagonist always refuses him, however one day he goes to a rap concert and there are the mall rats who harass him again with his girlfriend right next to him. And it appears that they look up and listen to his shady friend. So he agrees to tip him in exchange for the brats to leave him alone. He gives him the date and time of a delivery. He is also in the security team who'll meet the delivery to the shopping mall. Things then go really bad. The robbers produce a gun and one of them is caught (by an angry and big security guard) and is killed. Of course we were annoyed and at the same time kind of scared of these group of kids but after his death we understand that they really are kids and it is such a waste. The film is of the artsy European type I like. The actors look like real people, the locations and costumes look authentic and there isn't a certain resolution or redemption.