Play

Play (2011) is a drama by Ruben Östlund you can watch online on iFILM, a cool-headed reconstruction of a street con that ran for years in Gothenburg.

For a stretch in the mid-2000s, packs of boys barely into their teens kept fleecing other kids using one rehearsed routine. No knives, no fists — just the "little brother trick": convince a target you're hunting for a stolen phone, talk them in circles, and walk them somewhere they can't back out. Östlund films it in long, fixed takes, the camera parked at a deliberate distance.

It's an uncomfortable watch that refuses to sort anyone neatly into victim or villain, asking you to sit with how pressure and performance do the work that violence usually does. This is early Östlund, the same icy eye that later won the Palme d'Or for The Square. A slow, divisive crime drama. Stream Play (2011) online on iFILM.