Never mind the bad optics of a political hand/secret police engaging in the abduction of citizens. A government ran force comes to places of residence and takes people away. Characters look out of their peepholes while the antagonists make threats. There’s a curfew during the night that people where people can’t be out in the streets.
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One major problem with Songbird is that a lot of this movie feels like The Purge without the political strands to match. Complete with the camera framing of characters and the quick, frenetic pacing in which it goes. Once the second act arrives and Nico decides to save Sarah, it feels like his movie. Michael Bay served as a producer and directed the action sequences on this film. However, choices in who and how the virus infects people come off a little confusing. Sarah’s interactions with her grandmother, Lita ( Elpidia Carrillo) feel real in that she has to choose between this love she feels deeply for and family. This futuristic Romeo and Juliet motif drives the film alongside some loose implementations, as what connection really means when you’re in a pandemic. May ( Alexandra Daddario) is an aspiring singer/songwriter who has an online admirer in Dozer ( Paul Walter Hauser), a drone using, wheelchair-bound, war veteran.Īpa and Carson’s performances are good with what they have to work with. William and Piper Griffith ( Bradley Whitford, Demi Moore) are a married couple who run an underground business supplying illegal immunity bracelets. Songbird shows different types of relationships during this stage of forced quarantine. He’s looking to go away with his girlfriend Sarah ( Sofia Carson) with whom he cannot have physical contact. Nico Price ( KJ Apa) is a motorcycle courier who is saving up money to go to an island called Big Sur.
That’s a lot of dystopian themes that this movie could explore and give a commentary on as a cautionary tale. Those that are immune to the virus have to wear a yellow bracelet to roam out and about. There are hints at resistance, but it’s just that and not really expounded upon. If you are sick, then you’re taken to a Q-Zone by the Sanitation department, where you’re left for dead or get better. The world is under strict lockdown, packages are delivered and sterilized with machines, and everybody has a temperature app that they take daily. Songbird is a film that is co-written by director Adam Mason and writer Simon Boyes. It takes place within a world in 2024 where COVID-19 has mutated into COVID-23. They also try to invoke characterization that we can sympathize with and just maybe a path forward. Chalk it up to a terrifying situation being relatively new, but thrillers and sci-fi films have always dipped into potentially terrifying aspects of our reality. 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow pondered what the world would look like undergoing very extreme weather events. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2011 movie, Contagion suddenly jumped in downloads and on top of the Netflix top ten watch list. Real-life events beget art or fantasies of what life could be.
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