The Plague gives one possible way that society as we know it will come to an end.
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The Plague tells a good story and builds up to a climactic ending. Unfortunately that ending just doesn't deliver anything that made any sense.
Review by: BHM Editor
Don Sumner
October 22, 2006
Release: 2006
Directed by: Hal Masonberg
Written by: Hal Masonberg and Teal Minton
Starring:
James Van Der Beek as Tom Russel
Ivana Milicevic as Jean Raynor
Brad Hunt as Sam Raynor
Joshua Close as Kip
Brittany Scobie as Claire
How will the end of the world come about? This question has been answered many times through cinema. The Stand shows that a virus will be responsible for the end of society as we know it. Pulse says that computer technology will bring our demise. George A. Romero’s vision is that hell fills up so the dead will walk the earth.
The Plague focuses on the very future of the human condition – our children.
One day all of the world’s children under the age of 8 suddenly fall into a deep coma. Amazingly, in addition to all children being in the same type of coma they also simultaneously go into convulsions at the same time every day. This condition continues for 10 years. To make the situation even more bleak, there are no successful new births during this period either. No children…nobody to carry on the human race.
As time goes by people grow accustomed to this phenomenon, and the schools are converted from learning facilities to hospitals where the comatose children are tended to with fresh I. V.s and sponge-baths. Society rattles on, but the growing concern over the future of mankind is ever-present…how will the race survive?
Eight years later a milestone is reached: The last of the world’s children graduate high school. The schools that haven’t already been converted to healthcare facilities are closed, and the global countdown continues.
Now the question is – what would happen if all of the comatose children were to suddenly wake up? Even worse, what if they woke up mad?
The Plague describes an alternate depiction of the end of the world. The overtones are simultaneously religious and cataclysmic. Heck, in many ways this is even a zombie movie of sorts…except for the fact that nobody died first and then walked around, and the “walkers” can learn how to do things like shoot guns ala Land of the Dead.
I must admit, I didn’t completely “get” The Plague. The ending sequences gave some sort of resolution I guess, but not any resolution that made sense to me. Nevertheless there were some good scenes and some tense moments. Just make sure that if you watch The Plague you have set aside several hours to contemplate the meaning and are prepared to have your findings remain unconfirmed. Questions or comments about The Plague? Contact us!
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