However, this greed is justified as it is to provide for her immunocompromised daughter. In our star studded cast there is the character Piper Griffin (Demi Moore) who is in the business of distributing black market immunity bracelets at a steep cost. Such as greed at the expense of others health. The dystopian approach always makes for an intriguing watch, with somewhat manic flashes of insanity throughout that remind us of the differences in our human race. Hollywood’s most recent attempt at warning the masses that fiction can be made real, like reality can be made fictional. In all, the film appears to be a worst case scenario for viewers. Perhaps this is a romanticised portrayal of the teen ravaged TikTok. Her role might seem small but remember that so many of us are doing the same. Included in this cast is May (Alexandra Daddario) who is a popular online live streamer, trying to bring back nostalgia through song. Instead, it features a small cast of people just trying to survive with their sanity. There is truly nothing here that mimics the legendary pandemic films of our past. It doesn’t dramatize reality with decomposing zombies crawling the streets, or a sectioned view of society being handled by different people in a power struggle. The film, as painstakingly realistic as can be, serves as a warning. Jump starting an engaging high stakes journey to save her life from being taken to one of the ominous quarantine camps. His girlfriend whom he has never met in life, Sara (Sofia Carson) lives with her grandmother, who soon falls ill to the virus.

In the film, Nico (KJ Appa) is immune to the virus, surviving in isolation by becoming a delivery man in a silent city. The virus in the film is eloquently named the ‘Covid-23 virus’ and those infected face something worse than death, quarantine camps that perhaps hit too close to home for the human expectation. The cast is limited with no extras to fill the screen, creating a scarily desolate film that reflects what our future may be. However, Songbird doesn’t host the natural expectation of a pandemic film. The science fiction thriller stars headliners KJ Appa (Riverdale) and Sofia Carson (Disney’s Descendants) caught in a star-crossed romance in the midst of a deadly pandemic, dated only two years from now.

The latest addition to the pandemic genre is the Amazon Prime original Songbird that recently became available to stream. So much so that many of us have become desensitised to the reality that people are dying in enormous numbers every day. There’s no flashy bloodshed but it’s not needed for a film like this, and I don’t think its intention is to cause scaremongering but instead to just simply speak to audiences.įrom Will Smith’s iconic I Am Legend to Jesse Eisenberg’s comedic hit Zombieland, we all love a good thriller.

This Michael Bay-produced thriller is perhaps what is needed: a reflection of what is to come, if we don’t act accordingly. Naturally, this is why so many have waved it off like an issue on the backburner.īecause so many believe it as nothing more than a Hollywood fiasco. Maybe only because we’ve already seen a thousand films about the impact of humanities recklessness. Living in a national pandemic, sweeping through life like a breeze, is definitely cinematic.

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