![]() ![]() ![]() William often leaves his home at night to visit his mistress May (Alexandra Daddario), who is a social media star and cover artist. Realizing the only way to prevent his girlfriend and her grandmother’s transfer to a Q-Zone is to get them two illegal immunity bracelets, Nico goes to acquire them from the affluent Westside couple Piper and William Griffin ( Demi Moore and Bradley Whitford) with all the money he has.ĭisturbed by the fact that Nico knows about their criminal activities, Piper sends him to Emmett Harland (Peter Stormare), the head of DOS and the Griffins’ business partner. When Sara’s grandmother is diagnosed with COVID, the Department of Sanitation comes for both of them. As Sara doesn’t seem to have immunity, the star-crossed lovers must always have a physical barrier between them. He is in love with Sara (Sofia Carson), who lives with her grandmother (Elpidia Carrillo). Apa), a muny, is a courier working for Lester (Craig Robinson). The condition in these zones is horrendous, and people go to desperate lengths to avoid going there. The ones who are found to be infected are forcefully evacuated to Q-Zones by the Department of Sanitation. The other group of people must stay at home and check their temperature with their phones every morning. The munies wear yellow bracelets on their wrists, identifying them as such, and do jobs that require fieldwork. At least in the US, two distinct groups of people have emerged, those who have immunity against the infection AKA “munies,” and those who don’t. COVID-19 has mutated into COVID-23, and there is no end to the pandemic in sight. It’s pure escapism tightly bundled in a quasi-retrospection about our unsettling realities. Granted, there is already a litany of films and TV shows that have addressed the pandemic in one way or another they are almost always about the human condition in such an unusual and stressful time, but ‘Songbird’ is not one such film. The story is set only four years after the film’s release, and so the world it shows is the worst-case scenario if the current situation continues to devolve at an increasing pace. ![]()
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