Pandemiocracy

Pandemiocracy tells the story of a family separated during the lockdown in the first year of the pandemic. The story of a Philippine mother and her two children trying to leave Italy to join the Italian father in Manila. A journey made difficult by the travel disruption that all of us certainly experienced.

But this documentary it's not only about that. The journey of the family alternates with interviews to doctors, Covid patient, concerned citizens, messages from politicians and new from all over the globe to pictures a world where reason gives in to fear, where human rights are violated and governments fail to respond properly, timely and rationally to the health emergency. The director carries on his controvertial thesis that lockdowns have been not only ineffective, but also devastating having worsened mental problems, domestic violence incidence, economic crisis, job loss and desperation.

But the film leaves also space to those with a different opinion like the Italian virologist that believes that in Italy like in many other countries, for instance, the lockdown was necessary to allow the NHS to properly do its job.

I personally think that Pandemiocracy is well-presented and reaches interesting conclusions.

Eventually a documentary that tells the truth: he inutility of the lockdowns. U. S. States with shelter-in-place orders did not report fewer infections and deaths last year. This is based on serious studies. And I am happy to see that there are filmmakers to deal with such a theme. I admire you director Soriquez for having the courage to make and release this eye opening documentary. Now, this docu doesn't imply that social distancing efforts were ineffective. But social distance is one thing while locking people inside their houses and ruining the whole economy is another thing. Aside from criticising the lockdown this documentary deals with the painful issue of human rights violation during this pandemic. For those of you who haven't a strong stomach there are some crude scenes of people being beaten for defying the shelter in place order (in third world countries). Good thing there are warning messages before those clips. Really interesting are the interviews to two Italian doctors, especially to the older one who was also infected with the virus at the age of 80+, and who tells us what to do to better prepare our immune system to fight the disease.

All considered this is an outstanding documentary. Lots of things to learn from it.

A well-balanced documentary that carries on its rather controversial thesis while leaving room for the contradictory. Very informative but also highly entertaining, it shows us the side of the pandemic less discussed by newspapers and televisions. Several touching scenes make it quite emotional, and it couldn't be otherwise given the subject matter. Valuable and noteworthy is the director's intent to denounce the violation of human rights and freedom of speech perpetrated both by authoritarian governments and, unfortunately, by democratic countries. This is a documentary not to be missed and which deserves the attention of a wider audience.

It's a great documentary that deals with a controversial topic. The opinions are backed up by science (Stanford and Oxford professors) and totally convincing.

The journey of an Italian-Filipino family trying to reunite amid flight bans, travels disruption and lockdowns intercuts with chronicles of the impact of lockdowns on communities across the world, personal stories of death and recovery, the damage to free speech, and eye opening lifestyle and medical advices to better fight the virus.

The storytelling of director Soriquez is fast paced and convincing and the key themes of the film, mostly the lockdown cure as worse than the disease and the world wide abuse of power and restrictions of freedom, are well documented with shocking images. I believe that the use of some stock footage is due to the fact that, evidently, this documentary was a low budget production filmed during lockdown. The statistics that Soriquez uses to back up his main ideas are taken from the Johns Hopkins University and thus truly reliable. What i didn't like is the use of AI voices where a warm human voice wouls have been much better.

The Director Ruben Maria Soriquez did a great job of stating the facts. His approach was personal, and could of been a little more emotional. The interviews were really good and I learned allot about what happened in Italy, in the begining of the Pandemic. Excellent editing.