Taking place in 2024, the upcoming movie “Songbird” is about a mutated COVID-23, massive quarantine camps, and a high-tech police state that uses smartphones to control people. Can we still call this “entertainment”?
At the moment of writing these lines, the world is entering its ninth month of “pandemic life”, characterized by various degrees of lockdowns, clampdowns on social gatherings, sweeping mask mandates, high tech surveillance, and the establishment of a faceless tyranny based on stats and numbers.
As people are looking for ways to wake up from this nightmarish
scenario, Hollywood had a great idea: Let’s make a movie about
everything that is happening right now – but worse.
The upcoming movie Songbird is defined as a “pandemic
thriller” (is there anything “thrilling” about a