Points:
*Dr. Mendez could -- and probably did -- hear them on the radio. They're clearly "safe" and are collating information in real-time. Why wouldn't he make his way over there?
*Yeah, a touch of racism. Small towns everywhere have that sort of thing. Doesn't make it right, but it certainly makes it believable.
*How on earth did you conclude Grant Mazzy had caught the disease? He showed no symptoms. He was freaked out, certainly. Who could blame him? He'd been barraged by so much strange and unsettling information that morning, capped off with a really creepy episode of a dying teenager talking like a baby. He'd been stuck at the station the whole time, which made everything seem even more unreal. So he needed to step outside, just to get a look at the world and reassure himself that it still seemed normal enough. Imagine yourself trapped in your room listening to radio accounts of your entire town going insane. Wouldn't you eventually need to actually look out at it?
*Since you vastly oversimplify the sequence of events between Dr. Mendez figuring out what was happening and his later exit, there's really no way to address this criticism. It simply didn't happen like that.
*Laurel Ann was infected. If you don't buy the premise, well, yes, it's going to seem odd. If she'd caught, say, the Rage virus from '28 Days Later' and you decided to describe it as 'The intern decided to get really angry and run after other people', it's entirely your problem if you aren't going to accept the premise.
*The principle was that they were trying to take infected words and strip them of their original meaning, thereby disinfecting them. Your description, once again, is meaningless and deliberately so. There's no valid argument in describing something inaccurately and demanding an explanation.
*You can interpret the post-credits (read carefully..."post-credits") scene however you wish. You think it's a Matrix analogue? Up to you.
There are several legitimate criticisms of this movie, but trying to create problems where there aren't any is no way to actually address the problems that actually are there.
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bottleupandx
7 years ago
I like your points!
I was just annoyed that the story unfolded as if Mazzy and his producer were somehow solving the problem by jumping on air and taking the meaning away from a few words they think might be infected (the French broadcast had it right, don't use English).
I've seen this plot before, but the difference is that I hated the way the two protagonist tried to fix the problem. I understand there isn't much they can do but jumping on the radio the way they did was so silly. Are they really going to cure the already infected? The infected will not be listening *correctly* and if they are, they are being bombed!
Most of the people on the message boards are right in just saying that the first half of this movie seems very interesting and the second half just kind of fizzles out. Like the writer had some big idea but it was just out of reach so he called on plan B.
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