![]() ![]() ![]() Songbird frames this as being the all-important issue, that these two people deserve their “freedom” and that anyone else be damned. In the midst of all of this, the designated hero of the story is an immune courier named Nico ( KJ Apa), who must rescue his girlfriend ( Sofia Carson) after her grandmother dies of the virus, so they can escape the government before she gets thrown into quarantine. Songbird is set in the imagined near-future of 2024 Los Angeles, depicting the nightmare scenario outcome of COVID-19: 8 million deaths within one year people confined solely to their residences, save for those who are immune anyone else venturing from their homes being shot on sight anyone who tests positive being condemned to a quarantine zone a virus that has mutated so frequently and to such a huge degree that it is now called COVID-23 and a city that has been locked down for four straight years. However, all of that goes out the window in the face of a tone-deaf, exploitative nightmare such as 2020’s latest cinematic abomination, Songbird, directed by Adam Mason ( Blood River) and produced by Platinum Dunes, Invisible Narratives, and Catchlight Studios, with Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay also receiving the film’s top producer credit. It is, therefore, not unprecedented - nor, in and of itself, unacceptable - for a film to be made in the midst or immediate wake of those defining moments that provides an additional way for people to contextualize, cope with, and move beyond them. Defining moments in history have, and will, always be documented as much by art as by the news of their time or the history books themselves. ![]()
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