Pandemiocracy

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 docu masterpiece! Great rhythm, engaging storytelling, interesting interviews and the courage to tell the things as they are even though they are ugly. During these last two years we have experienced to a war to common sense, a war to human rights, a war to freedom of speech and a war against those scientists who refuse to just obey the politicians and have the courage to publish scientific works that prove all the uselessness of all these lockdowns. Social distance is what really works not house arrests which are really, like the director says, is the "cure worse than the disease". This docu should be watched by as much people as possible to wake them up from this "obedience social experiment" that we are forced to partecipate in.

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.

It's given that this is a very emotive topic. And as always, emotive topics give birth to controversial opinions, feelings and point of view. I think that this documentary either you love it or you hate it. It all depends on how you lived (and survived) this awful pandemic. The quality of this documentary, beyond the inexpensive way it was done, is pretty decent. I am not talking about the production value, but about the way it is presented, and how the director proposes his arguments (in a pretty methodic and clear way I would say). I personally agree with the conclusions of this work: 1- keep a healthy lifestyle since the casualties due to Covid-19 were higher among people with underlying conditions. 2- The lockdowns did indeed harm people in many ways (and I would say lockdowns by age would have been more appropriate) and their effects are far from being over. 3- Treasure what matters the most because you'll never know what the future brings you (and this is particularly true in this period). This is a film worth watching.