The Plague: A Film Analysis

I. A, a thin, sickly 28 year old man, has been checked in a plague hospital for the past 6 months. Recalls the new plague-like sickness that hit 2 years ago, how it took out millions of people, and caused the world to change. People spread out and cities became much smaller. Mentions how he was a filmmaker, who made documentaries about various groups of people, where he learned a lot. He meets another sick person, an old man who seems senile and claims to be extremely wealthy. He tells lavish, exotic stories about his encounters with mysticism, the supernatural, and is filled with paranoia. A learns from the man about his daughter who moved far up north when she grew tired of his lifestyle and antics and how they don’t speak anymore. He wishes to find her so that he can give her something important before he dies, and requests A’s help in doing so. …show more content…
One day, the man is gone and no longer around the hospital so A believes him to have checked out or most likely died. Months, go by and A is finally well enough and cured of the sickness to be checked out of the hospital himself. He goes out into a world where everyone he once knew had died, and he now has hardly anything to his name. He goes to his old apartment in the city, a once decent area now battered by the looting and chaos that came with the epidemic. He wonders which, if any, of his neighbors might still be alive. His phone rings the next morning, and it’s the old man. He arranges him to be picked up and taken to his house, a large mansion outside of the city in a secluded woods. He asks him to