Cyberterrorists attack the UK, disrupting the flow of the Thames waters, turning off the lights in Greater London at will, about to crash a commercial plane in the center of the City and breaking into the government’s cybersecurity system.
The Mi5 -interior- and the Mi6 -exterior- are mobilized. Syria, Belgium and France are in the equation. Two Syrian computer experts believe they have data that is vital to the UK and France. The two experts and manage to flee their country with an uncertain fate. Mercenaries, spies and English and French politicians go in search of him. The plot of the Liaison series (Apple TV) is totally engaging.
The actors Vicent Cassel and Eva Green are the epicenter of this series where Brexit is presented as a problem for the first time. The UK is no longer coordinated with Europe and cyber attacks send them into a panic. From the Interior, it is requested that emergency protocols be signed to coordinate information and return to the status quo prior to leaving the European Union.
Everything is fiction, but reality is there. The UK is effectively cut off from the mainland. It is no longer the fog that separates Europe from the islands, it is the incomprehensible obsession of believing themselves to be special. And a simple television series makes it clear.
It is the first time that Brexit has come to the screen and the truth is that all the supremacy, the arrogance and the supposed British superiority emerges in a very stark way. It’s true. Are alone. They can publicize the fleet of nuclear submarines that they have set up together with Australia and the United States, but the truth is that the English Channel has become an abyss for the British. The United Kingdom, as we knew it 10 years ago, no longer exists. I don’t think as Gary Lineker says that it resembles the Germany of the 30s, but it goes in the wrong direction.
That abyss that opens in the channel engulfs everything, cybersecurity, exports, imports, immigration, financial transactions, people… everything. In Liaison there is also an event that until now we had not experienced. For the first time on a screen, the English do not seem to control the issue.
A story of espionage, political intrigue and love, Liaison explores how the mistakes of the past can destroy the future. It is a six-part series based on the script by Viriginie Brac and Oliver Butcher. It is an Anglo-French production that has gotten very good reviews. John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal writes “the Green-Cassel pairing is magnetic, made up of actors capable of creating depth amidst chaos and character without dialogue.”
The separation of the United Kingdom from the European Union has been traumatic, and Liaison dares to be the first film work to address the problem. This thriller that takes place in the shadow of Brexit is the first example of many others that will undoubtedly come.
