6/10
devolution is the new orange
9 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Not familiar with the actual circumstances and 2D often is far from 3D at times but considering the story presented is factual then at first it was a riveting story. Couldn't stop watching but then who can't relate. Who hasn't been at some point in their life facing dangerous weather, let alone killer weather, or some other natural event that reminds us how fragile we all are. But, then the story devolved from surviving difficult events into another woke story and then just got worse min by min. Was this a conspiracy as alleged by one character, or was this about people abandoned by an inept system. Putting that aside, what is 'humane'. We put down animals as being humane but then call it something else when it involves people. Why is that? Assuming the story is factual, would it have been humane just to abandon these people as the producers tell it. Leave very sick people with no water, no food, no way to counter the extremely hot and humid conditions to fend for themselves because that's what the producers want you to think, but in a non ham handed way of course. They start with a story about a natural disaster and how people are dealing with that and then turn the story around to make it out to be conspiracy to commit murder. They make a point of showing how one morbid obese patient is saved but another is not and it never really comes out why. Nor to they explain why authorities ordered the evacuation of the bldg with threats of physical removal but no plan to evacuate all the patients.

The writing is very inconsistent. Just sort of hop scotches over any logic at many points like it wasn't important. And throughout there are absences of commonsense like if they were so short of water and food why didn't they get the helicopters to bring it in while they were evacuating the bldg. There's a ton of details like that seem to be left out or interpreted artistically to be almost untrue. And what happened to all the people who took refuge at the hospital. What happened to them. It's not a documentary but if you go to so much trouble to recreate the story then why take it for a spin and make it political. Was there an actual conspiracy or was it that some people just thought it was a conspiracy. Could these patients have been saved, and who is to blame that they weren't. Could this happen somewhere else, some other event. If there is a conspiracy, it lies with the producers who wanted to tell the story with a certain spin but couldn't start that way because no one would watch. So they draw you in with an interesting story of people dealing with a disaster and then devolve it into something else without ever presenting anything to back up their political point of view of the world. Another media example of taking a good story and then devolving into another divisive issue we can all argue about.
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