- AKA “Época de Plagas”
- Directed by: Gabriela Calvache
- Written by: Gabriela Calvache, Daniela Granja Nunez
- Stars: Christian Soria Cabrere, Samantha Villareal, Lema Mercy G
- Run Time: 18:52
- Watch it: Not yet– still on the festival circuit
What Happens
A girl wakes up and wanders around the house. There’s plastic over all the windows and doors, and she puts on an odd filter mask before knocking on her mother’s door. Her father makes her stop, he’s told her not to go in there. “It’s for your own good.”
We heard about problems with radioactive waste on the radio. He needs to go out for a while to get food, and he wears one of those same strange masks. The little girl, Emily, misses her mother, but her father will not let her open the door to be with her.
Suddenly, a flying insect comes through the room, and Emily’s father squashes it. When he finds out that Emily has opened the window, he’s very angry.
What’s going on here?
Commentary
Those masks are pretty cool, sort of a modern-day take on the old plague doctor masks.
It’s pretty obvious that Emily’s going to get in through that door eventually, but the suspense is wondering what she’s going to find on the other side. I was expecting zombies.
It was not zombies. This is very claustrophobic, all taking place within the apartment, but we see a plague-ravaged world outside with no real explanation of what happened.
Very entertaining!
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