Coup!

I thought the basic idea for this movie was a satiric exploration of the similarities between the Covid and 'Spanish Flu' pandemics and how people of different backgrounds suffered through later. Boy, that would have been nice. No, instead the movie is very much about a rich hypocrite who seems to be a strawman invented by the present day US right-wing: a vegetarian coastal elite, who writes for the paper as if he was present at certain events, but he was not actually there, he is lying; he demands things he claims are good for the workers, but is clueless about the real world and does not treat his own workers too well. He is wealthy because his father owned a factory. When schools close because of the pandemic, his wife raises the idea the she could educate their children herself; he rejects the idea insisting that his wife should work (write) instead.

Unfortunately, the writing is rarely clever, nuanced, or even consistent.

The plot does not really gel, but it does not have to, the film is merely about the undoing of this hypocrite. I am sure some people will find nuance in the movie, and one could even argue it is a general critique of the upper class, but I don't think it works as such. Despite good performances by all cast members, the film disappoints due to its script.