Pandemiocracy

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.

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.

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.

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.

This documentary is very informative. Great context and heart warming. Watching this film makes me think how important it is to be healthy,not just for your self but also for your love ones. A must-see documentry.