- Changing things up today.
I am going to review the new trailer for the movie Songbird
that's coming out.
One of my colleagues told me to check this out
because it's related to COVID-19.
There is already a movie related to a pandemic virus?
Come on.
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Normally I go over medical conditions,
today we're gonna do a review of this trailer
since it's kind of controversial
and let's check it out and then get right into it.
("Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley begins)
All right, let's stop it right away.
This starts off with Bob Marley music,
Everything's Gonna Be Alright.
The last movie that I saw
that played a bunch of Bob Marley music
was I Am Legend with Will Smith.
It was about a virus, apocalyptic stuff, and vaccines.
So I don't understand the correlation.
I'm not sure if they're made by the same people.
But a side note about Bob Marley,
he was actually shot two days before he then gave a speech
at like a peace rally,
but he had like a really famous quote,
he also said, "Bring light to the darkness",
which interesting that they're using
this uplifting guy's music in
like an apocalyptic kind of crazy world.
So let's keep going.
It starts out all happy relationship.
And then boom gets this like, sound of like a game
- [Female PA System] In effect, All unauthorized...
- Helicopters, flying everywhere.
All unauthorized people, stay in your home.
Quarantining
- [Male Voice From Movie] 213th week of lockdown.
- That's crazy.
It just said that they're in the 213th week of lockdown.
That's four years.
Wow.
Four years of lockdown with no ways of treatments.
I don't believe it.
This is kind of like a little chaotic,
a little scary on purpose,
kind of thing.
Let's see what else we got going
- [Male] COVID-23 has mutated
- Relating to it.
It's COVID-23.
Come on.
Who produced this?
COVID-23, we're in the middle of a pandemic of COVID-19.
It seems like it's a little too close for home.
- [Female Automated Voice] Beginning thermal scan.
Thermal scan normal.
♪ Every little thing ♪
- [Male] A horrifying...
- All right.
So they got an app on your phone to check your temperatures.
Okay. That's pretty cool.
Thermal scan to check your own temperature.
But if it's connected to like the governments that you're in
and they can kind of have a watch live
of what's going on, and that's kind of a little invasive.
- [Female] New data confirms the virus
attacks the brain tissue.
- They got new data that the virus attacks brain tissue.
So viruses in general can cause
what's the name is encephalopathy.
Encephalopathy is swelling of the brain.
So yes, it affects the brain.
But the question ends up being is it
eating brain tissue, is it just causing swelling?
They don't discuss any of that.
- [Soldier] Get on your knees!
- [Man] Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa
I'm immune, I'm immune!
- All right now it's got military in the street everywhere.
It's like martial law
in the United States.
Never seen that happen.
Hopefully it doesn't.
And then there's a guy riding his bicycle
that says he's immune.
And that happens with some people
they're able to get the immunity
to a virus that other people sometimes can't get.
But always in these movies, there's always that one or two
characters that you gotta use their special blood
that sort of stuff.
That doesn't happen as frequently in the real world.
- [Female] Worldwide death toll rises to over 110 million
- [Male] All infected Americans
are being force into quarantine.
- Wow. So worldwide death toll
110 million people over four years.
What does that a little more than 26 million.
27 million.
Quick math in my brain.
We don't have that number currently with COVID 19.
Hopefully we don't get there
with all our measures that we're trying to do.
We're not going to talk about the vaccine
at the moment, but that's, you know
a really large number and hopefully it never gets there.
Oh, and then anybody who is sick
and forced into quarantine camps so they can just like
keep things going without treatment and see what happens.
I don't think that'll ever happen either.
Hopefully it never happens.
- [Male] Department of Sanitation...
Oh man.
Department of sanitation wearing this big
huge hazmat suits.
Oh, neighbors trying to get in
but she looks like she's probably infected.
They're pulling her out of her own house.
That reminds me of like a TV show
called the Knick, which was about a hospital in New York,
called the Knickerbocker.
Back I think early 20th century where they would actually
like pull people who are sick out of their house
to treat them, experiment them.
It kind of gives me that vibe, that feeling.
It's produced by Michael Bay.
So he makes big, huge movies.
- [Female Automated Voice] Beginning thermal scan.
Three.
Two.
One.
- So she's wearing a bandana facecloth.
That's fine, if that's all you have,
but you know try to get a surgical mask,
multilayered mask, something with a filter
or like an N 95 mask or even more
if you have the P100's that sort of stuff
but if you have nothing, something is better than nothing.
Okay.
- [Female Automated Voice] Armed guards will be arriving
in four to six hours.
- So their thermal scan app actually attaches
to the health department, so it looks like four to six hours
somebody's going to show up to your house.
Either stay at home or you're going to get shot.
That's pretty intense.
- I know you're in there.
- I just can't believe how like militarized
this movie is already.
But yeah now the movie, basically the trailer,
a couple, a minute and a half, into it,
it's now turning into like over the top action,
thriller killer kind of movie.
Which is to be expected from The Purge and A Quiet Place
that sort of stuff.
Everybody wants to survive when it comes to infections
and scary time for this is a global problem that we
all need to work together to save the most amount of people
as well as get the most amount of people treated
and the least amount of people infected because
there could be longterm effects of this virus.
It's just kind of scary how much it relates
to what we're going through right now
with the pandemic of COVID-19.
- Stay safe, sane, and sanitized.
- Watching his trailer kind of makes me a little uneasy.
It makes me a little upset that, one, they were able
to edit, produce, and film
this during the whole period of time
while people are quarantined and losing their jobs
that sort of stuff, and people are getting sick.
And then the other thing is it seems way too close
to home when it comes to the fact that we're
in the middle of a pandemic, this COVID-19 pandemic
that we don't have a great hold on.
That I work in the ER and I see patients still,
where the cases are rising and people are sick and worried.
And now we have a movie that's coming out
that makes it even scarier.
I'm not the biggest fan of this.
But probably get to check it out
just so I can see what's going on.
But I don't know.
I think it hits a lot, lot
of us the wrong way
and a little bit too close to home.
All right.
That's my quick review of the trailer
for the movie Songbird with me, Dr. Wagner.
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or opinions about this trailer
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