Video information:
- The title of the video is Den enda vägen – The only way.
- The people interviewed are not in the video. Three people shown in the video are actors. Each person in the video is filmed from behind against a black background. The interviewees are filmed from the shoulder line upwards. Their faces are not shown in the video.
- The video is in Swedish. Subtitles are available in English and Finnish from Vimeo settings.
- The duration of the video is ten minutes and eight seconds.
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- This alternative text file contains both visual description and speech description of the video image and audio.
- The visual descriptions describe what is happening during the dialogue, which follows after.
- The visual descriptions and audio descriptions are places in square brackets.
Alternative text description
[The sounds of the birds and the environment can be heard. At the beginning of the video, the screen background is dark. The video shows glimpses of the interviewee wearing a scarf. Then comes the video title and a short description in white text “The only way – a short film about crime among young people.” A white text appears on a black background “Based on interviews with young people in Eskilstuna.” Another white text appears on a black background “The interviews are anonymised and retold by the actors.”]
[The video focuses on the first person. They are wearing a yellow hoodie. The interviewee begins to talk about theirhxperiences.]
The interviewee tells:
I am twenty-four years old. My name is anonymous because I can’t say my name. I don’t want my mother to know what I have been through. She knows some things, like that the police have been knocking on our door and that I have been to prison for gun crime. She doesn’t know that I’ve shot someone. That’s why I want to stay anonymous.
[The image blurs and changes to the second person. The person in the picture is wearing a dark blue hoodie and pearl earrings. The interviewee starts to talk about his experiences.]
The interviewee says:
Well it was a lot of little things, everything from robberies to selling narcotics. When we were young, it all started with us trying to rob people. We were quite a few. There were some older guys who everyone thought were really cool. We were thirteen and we thought that everyone think they are so cool. We wanted to be like them.
[The image blurs and changes to a basketball hoop. There is grey pole in the foreground of the video. The image then focuses again on the basketball hoop. The video shows the sounds of the surroundings and birds. The image blurs again and changes to a third person. He begins to talk about his experiences.]
The interviewee tells:
I got involved because I couldn’t provide for my family. That’s why I found this way. I have a single mother and my father is out of the picture. That’s why it was not by my own free will and was not for my own sake. I didn’t know that type of situations I would end up in or where those situations would lead. I was young when it all started. I didn’t have a chance to apply for even a summer job.
[The image changes to a first person interviewed. They start talking about their experiences.]
The interviewee tells:
I was thirteen to fourteen years old and I didn’t have the chance. The only opportunity I had was a summer job, but summer jobs are only available in the summer. I couldn’t support my mother. My friends introduced me to crime. They made me think about money in a bad way, and that was the only way I could find to get ahead. I took the opportunity to make money in the wrong way. I would not do it again because I’m older now and have a stable job to support my mother.
[The image becomes blurred and a graffiti wall appears. A person in a white hoodie walks with a hood over his head and a black bag on his shoulder. There is sound of birds and the environment. A white car drives by. The video blurs again and the picture changes to a person in a dark blue hoodie who appeared earlier in the video. They begin to share their experiences.]
The interviewee tells:
Then I started dating a guy who was older than me. He was involved in criminal activities. I didn’t raise my eyebrows about it. I knew what he was doing because I have seen it all along.
[The image blurs and the picture changes to a person who was interviewed first. They continue to share their experience.]
The interviewee tells:
I used to give drugs to my friends because I couldn’t keep them at home. I used to hide the weapon at my girlfriend’s house.
[The picture change to the third person.]
The interviewee tells:
It destroyed a lot for me. It impacted me a lot. When will he disappear? Will he go to prison? When he goes to prison, when will ge get out? Those type of questions got to me.
[The video moves on to the first person who starts to tell their experience.]
The interviewee tells:
I have been let down many times. My best friends, who I thought would never let me down, let me down.
[The picture changes to a swing and a lamppost. The interviewee continues talking.]
The interviewee tells:
He let me down by lying to me and started sending problems my way.
[The picture goes back to the person.]
The interviewee continues:
I shot my friend. I didn’t mean to. I shot him in the foot.
[The video changes to an image of an underpass tunnel where two people are walking. In the background you can see the stairs and the electric scooter. The underpass is dark, but daylight can be seen at the end of the tunnel. There is laughter of the two people and the sounds of the surroundings. The image blurs and changes to show the second person being interviewed.]
The interviewee tells:
When you are younger, you don’t plan it to ruin your life. You don’t think that you are going to get sucked in. You think that it’s only temporary. I’m only going to earn this amount or I’m only going to do that one thing. I’m just goin to buy that cool jacket. I’m just going to do this, just going to do that and so on.
[The video moves on to the third person.]
The interviewee tells:
I would put it all behind me. I was very responsible. But I knew that he was involved in criminality. He’s been to prison many times.
[The image changes to the second person being interviewed.]
The interviewee tells:
He probably spends more time in prison than outside. An then, when they are in prison, they want to make a change and in there it works. Then, when they come home, it doesn’t work out. The whole process takes too long. They need to be given more support. This is people who have been able to pick up the phone and have large sums of money within weeks. And then you lose the motivation if it takes one, two or three months. An ordinary person cannot go without income for three months.
[The picture changes to a playground and shows an empty swing swinging back and forth. A colourful playground equipment is shown in the background.]
The interviewee continues:
You think that you are not going to fail. It’s a lot and there’s a lot of hierarchy within the criminal networks. Especially if you have a good network or you are good within criminality. Then they see themselves as a better than others. They think that they are not as stupid as the people at the bottom of the hierarchy and think things will work put for them.
[The picture fades out and changes back to the playground. There is a tree and a green plant in the foreground. In the background there is a colourful playground equipment and a swing.]
The interviewee continues:
But they all end up down there. They will sure end up like the alcoholics in the park.
[The picture switches back to interviewee.]
The interviewee continues:
I have told them that don’t you see it. Because I have seen them when they are sitting in the park withb their friends smoking a joint and on the other side you can see the alcoholics, the older man in the park. Don’t you see it? They will all end up the same way. They will do exactly the same thing.
[The image blurs and changes to show the playing field. The image shows a grassy area and trash on the field. Sounds of the surroundings can be heard.]
The picture changes to show the third interviewee wearing a scarf.
The interviewee tells:
I would like to inform the young ones and the older once as well and everyone who is thinking about this life. There are other ways to find a better way. Fight through it, move forward. I believe in you a lot. It is not easy to find the right way but it is always there.
[The image changes to a street with many wheels in a row. In the foreground are blue, yellow and red bikes. The video shows the sounds of birds, the street and the surroundings. The image switches to the first interviewee who is wearing a yellow hoodie.]
The interviewee tells:
To all of you who think you are so cool, don’t forget me. I have lost a lot of friends. I hope you stay away from this. I have lots of experience from this and what I means is that if you shoot once you will never go back to the way you were before. Stay away from these types of mistakes.
[The picture changes away from the interviewee. The people in the video take turns getting up from their chairs and walking away. A steady music track begins to emerge in the background.]
[The text “Film from the Sisters in Business Youth Initiative Young Revolution” appears on a black screen. Below the text appears the white logo of Young Revolution. The video then shows the text “Created as part of the Erasmus+ funded Connect project”. Below the text is the white Connect logo. The logo changes to the blue Erasmus+ logo. Then emerges the text “produced by” followed by a list of the names. Maria Nordin, Racil Hussein, Hanan Noor, Emilia Selberg, Joel Almourtada and Anisa Abdi. The video then shows the text “Actors” followed by the following names. Asad Hussein, Hanan Noor and Anisa Abdi. The video shows the text “Acknowledgements” and below it the text “To those who have agreed to be interviewed. And for trusting us to share your story.” Lastly, the text “Thank you to Heli Pekkonen for her creative support” appears on the video. The video ends.]