We, as a collective, just had a terrifying experience with a pandemic a few years ago, which showed us how fragile we really are as a species. The lockdown phase tested our physical and mental health, and some days were harder than others. The movie Eradication by Daniel Byers cashes in on the remnants of our collective experience of the real-world pandemic to deftly create a somber yet engaging post-apocalyptic horror film, exploring the themes of loneliness and survival. Eradication revolves around an infected but immune man, David Baldwin whose blood is being studied by his wife Samantha to create a vaccine. Samantha works at the Eradication Control Center, an organization responsible for curbing the spread of a deadly virus that has wiped out most of humanity. The secluded life makes David break protocol as he ventures out of the safe house and discovers the horrors of the pandemic.
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- 6/17/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Dir: Stephen Frears. Starring: Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd. 12A, 108 minutes.
The true lives of so many kings, queens, and emperors have been lost to history – their faces scratched off coins, their names scrubbed from the record, and, in the case of Richard III, their stories turned into villainous pageantry by one William Shakespeare. Separating fact from historical propaganda is steady and ponderous work, a series of slow-motion spats confined to lecture theatres and academic annuals. It’s hardly the stuff of celluloid dreams. That’s what led to the hypocrisy of The Lost King, Stephen Frears’s comedy drama about the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton. Its self-congratulatory crusade to restore its subject’s reputation has, for the sake of entertainment, distorted reality to the point that it borders on farce.
The film, supposedly, champions the course correction of historical narratives. Firstly, there’s that of Richard III,...
The true lives of so many kings, queens, and emperors have been lost to history – their faces scratched off coins, their names scrubbed from the record, and, in the case of Richard III, their stories turned into villainous pageantry by one William Shakespeare. Separating fact from historical propaganda is steady and ponderous work, a series of slow-motion spats confined to lecture theatres and academic annuals. It’s hardly the stuff of celluloid dreams. That’s what led to the hypocrisy of The Lost King, Stephen Frears’s comedy drama about the discovery of Richard III’s skeleton. Its self-congratulatory crusade to restore its subject’s reputation has, for the sake of entertainment, distorted reality to the point that it borders on farce.
The film, supposedly, champions the course correction of historical narratives. Firstly, there’s that of Richard III,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
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