As the reality we are currently living it’s incredibly troubling. In this way the very people who are supposed to be protecting him are the ones putting him at risk, and in this case actually murdering him. Omid wont go to the police because of his fear of how that will affect his application. Known as an advocate for asylum seekers he has access to these young men, can ask questions to find out how much their disappearance will be noticed, and for example, in the instance of Omid who he drugs, but manages to escape, he can manipulate him with threats to expedite or hold up his application for asylum. But also likely because he’s an opportunist. ![]() Possibly because of his memories of Ravi and his terrible racist father. Blake’s colonialist father (Toby references this earlier in the movie) hired a young Parsi man called Ravi as a ‘helper’ who he eventually took under his wing and then into his bed, usurping his wife and son, who he abandoned, eventually leading to his mother’s suicide – Blake was the first to find his dead mum.īlake tells his latest victim, an Iranian man named Omid (Yazdan Qafouri), that he later beat Ravi to death kicking off his murderous obsession. Blake had a terrible father with whom he had no positive relationship. ![]() Later we get a glimpse of a possible motivation for why Blake is the way he is – or at least where his murderous urges first arose. In the film’s first big twist, Toby slips and is clonked on the head with a cricket bat by Blake. ![]() I Came By looks like it’s going to be a movie about angry young man Toby, whose relationship with his mother is fractious, and who has absolutely lost faith in a world he sees as corrupt, taking on Blake, rescuing his captive and proving to the world that he is worth something.īut this isn’t that movie. When Toby breaks into Blake’s house he sees the guy beaten and half naked, and returns with the hope of rescuing him. We know Blake has kept at least one young man hostage in his custom basement.
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