Fail the test, and a member of the “sanitation department” (literally garbagemen repurposed as a militarized force) will whisk the infected away to one of a handful of “Q-zones,” which are basically deplorable concentration camps for the infirm. Residents are on firm lockdown, under martial law, and are forced to take a phone app based COVID test every morning.
In Songbird, getting a cough or fever are flat out death sentences, despite the virus having a 56% mortality rate. (Lots of 24’s there, but that’s the movie’s logic, not mine.) Nothing asymptomatic to see here, folks. Songbird picks up in 2024 Los Angeles, where the increasingly deadly pandemic has now mutated into COVID-24, a disease that can kill within twenty-four hours. Just avoid Songbird because it’s flat out awful. Forget about the controversy or one’s feelings.
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Songbird is a terrible movie by most sets of technical, moral, logical, or quantifiable standards. Those people aren’t wrong to feel those ways, but now that Songbird is actually releasing – following a quick, controversial production – there’s a newer and perhaps more important thing to talk about. Understandably, for many, building a taut and bloody thriller around a worldwide catastrophe while similarly dire and fatal events are still unfolding in the current era is insensitive, exploitative, and dangerous. Almost as soon as it was announced back during the early days of our current global pandemic, the Michael Bay produced “COVID thriller” Songbird has been getting dunked on left and right.
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