Antiviral is a about a world where people do the cruelest things to each other, motivated only by money. They even apologise for the pain they cause. They are also obsessed with celebrity.
The film is quite confusing. People pay for injections somehow associated with celebrities. There is a strange machine that projects images of deformed fetuses. What is supposed to happen?
You come to look like the celebrity?
You have a dream where the celebrity enters your life?
You became a celebrity and hence can socialise?
It gradually becomes most likely that you get to share a disease with your selected celebrity though I never understood the purpose of the machine or why people wanted this form of souvenir.
On the black market, you can buy meat, cultured from the cells of celebrities. How customers can tell this from ordinary meat I have no idea.
Nothing is spelled out. You are never sure why anyone is doing anything. You are never sure who can be trusted.
I just hated the villains. They remind me of corporate spokespeople the way they are so insincere and so callous.
Caleb Landry Jones spends rather too much of the movie staggering about, coughing up blood and looking about to die.
Even he goes a bit nuts and sucks blood from a zombified corpse. It is quite disturbing, partly because everyone in the cast treats the most ghastly things so matter of factly, like the introduction of some new breakfast food.
The film is quite confusing. People pay for injections somehow associated with celebrities. There is a strange machine that projects images of deformed fetuses. What is supposed to happen?
You come to look like the celebrity?
You have a dream where the celebrity enters your life?
You became a celebrity and hence can socialise?
It gradually becomes most likely that you get to share a disease with your selected celebrity though I never understood the purpose of the machine or why people wanted this form of souvenir.
On the black market, you can buy meat, cultured from the cells of celebrities. How customers can tell this from ordinary meat I have no idea.
Nothing is spelled out. You are never sure why anyone is doing anything. You are never sure who can be trusted.
I just hated the villains. They remind me of corporate spokespeople the way they are so insincere and so callous.
Caleb Landry Jones spends rather too much of the movie staggering about, coughing up blood and looking about to die.
Even he goes a bit nuts and sucks blood from a zombified corpse. It is quite disturbing, partly because everyone in the cast treats the most ghastly things so matter of factly, like the introduction of some new breakfast food.