Covid-19 exposed things about the world that all of us knew. We are suffering from the p(l)andemic on the one hand and entangled between the skeptics and the alarmists on the other. Redefining what is normal has become a game that is coloured by false propaganda of vested interests; fuelled by a pattern of lies and fuelling a crisis of misinformation.
Many refute the claims that lockdown is an instrument of survival. Yet people are hunkered down in self-isolation for weeks and months, by force or fear, with or without access to food, shelter, medical care or livelihood. The old and the weak and the broken are dying at the hands of the corrupt elite; and the rest of the society has no recourse but to endure a heartless economy and a physically-distanced, solitary future.
While this film is reminiscent of the influence and power of the media, it looks beyond the headlines. It aims to urge the viewer to reanalyze the power structures and the way they work to perpetuate sensationalism and ignore the social impact that follows from that. It raises sobering questions. Are humans comparable to canaries in a coal mine? Who is the pawn in the game? Do you never ask questions when God’s on your side? How many years can some people exist, before they're allowed to be free? And to finish the thought, ‘The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind'. Bob Dylan's penetrating words.
But is it possible for both the answer and the question to be known in the same universe? Sometimes it seems the words remain hanging in the air.