Friday, June 2, 2023

Review of Sweet Tooth

 This tale tells more than fiction; the frictions that were too witnessed in the Covid times (analogy).

A virus that escaped, infected, killed, mutated, gave birth to few mutated off springs (answer still unknown); or, the bounties on hybrids in the quest to find the cure of the disease; what’s witnessed herein, might a day happen in fact in future too (or maybe something analogous) due to natural mutating nature of viruses or gain of function researches on them, forging another era of human-hybrids-transhumanism-androids-humanoids.

What keeps you riveted are the on screen characters, be it Gus (part deer part human), Tommy, Richard or Dr. Aditya. Facing their own dilemmas of breaking or making rules, with or without empathy. Gus, who breaks the rules his Pubba (Papa) told him not to cross certain boundaries for the roads that opens the door of post-apocalyptic World hunting him in the quest to find his mother; or be it Dr. Aditya, in a dilemma to invent cure of the Virus, in-between hiding his own infected wife Rani from neighbors/people who kill the infected ones & burn their houses to stop the spread, or, to perform deep invasive surgeries on live hybrids in anticipation to invent cure; or Tommy, that protects the hybrids he once used to kill; or Birdie, Gus’s mother.

You call it another gain of function research gone horribly wrong or a natural phenomenon (buried ancient inactive microbes coming alive) or naturally mutating nature of viruses; and just alike Covid, wherein to some extent, Science became a bit misleading & confused; herein too there was no cure, but mayhem. And just alike the origin of Covid couldn’t be traced; so too here: the virus that eliminated most of the human civilization then created hybrids, or, the virus that created hybrids first & mutated further from the hybrids to eliminate human civilization, or, something else went concurrently.

This isn’t 28 days later nor X-Men. Nor it’s Train to Busan or Contagion or Resident Evil. This is a series where one would rather have a heart for the Hybrids evolving in agony amidst human civilization, & to an extent forget about what originated first: the egg or the chicken.

A good watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

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