Episode 034 - Christopher Smith Focus: 2010's Black Death
A film based on one of the worst pandemics in
the history of mankind can’t be a good and enjoyable watch, can it?
When the Black Plague (also known as the Black Death) swept across
Europe in the 1300’s, anywhere between 30 to 60% of the population of
the continent died. No matter your age, no matter your gender, no matter
your heritage or nation, if you were exposed to the disease and
contracted it, you were already dead. Approximately 23% of the entire
world’s population died during this time or 1 in every 5 people.
The disease which was actually the bubonic
plague was spread by fleas from rats who would then find a new host upon
people. And the disease would spread as quick as if we were talking a
zombie outbreak. Since folks had no idea how a tiny common flea was
behind the spread, it was determined by the superstitious that Satan or
God and His wrath had come to punish humanity. Director Christopher
Smith takes a screenplay about the disease and brings us a story on how
faith can be followed inaccurately. And yet, his movie entitled Black
Death is so much more. It’s a story of human corruption where brilliant
folks whether religious, pagan, or atheistic work the fears of the
common person into a power base for their own nefarious wickedness.
Dark Discussions wraps up their Christopher
Smith film focus with 2010’s Black Death, a tale that tricks its
viewers into thinking it to be just another anti-religious film when in
fact it is a story of the demagoguery of the individual, the faith of
the uninformed, the dissocial personality disorder of the sociopath, and
the insanity of vengeance which one would see in a Korean revenge film.
Don’t expect a happy ending to a story filled with nihilism, but do
expect a fantastic film that will make one think deeply for days after
the viewer has watched the credits.
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