The Sadness (2021) Review

Greetings movie lovers.

One of my best genres of movies is the horror type, and I’m very much fond of the zombie style because I get curious and imagine how the world is going to be if it eventually gets overrun by zombies. I came across this movie "The Sadness" via a mere recommendation on social media, and after I watched it, I kept wondering how a movie like this is not hyped. I remember making a post about it on my WhatsApp status, and I got a lot of people asking which movie it was.

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This movie is a standout in terms of brutality, among all the zombie movies I have watched. I’ve seen many zombie movies, you know, because I’m a fan of them, and for me to pick this as a standout in terms of brutality, you must know it’s really brutal to the core.

Over the years, I have seen the transformation and evolution of zombies in movies, but the ones in this movie are not just ordinary zombies. These ones still have human senses in them. They're killable; in fact, the infection is not just a zombie virus per se, but something else entirely.

Okay, so there was news about the outbreak of a virus in the city of China that’s affecting people and making them kill those who are not infected, in very brutal ways. Not only that, the virus also makes the infected have an extremely high s3x drive—to the extent of same-s3x acts in public. The infected, with their human senses still intact, would team up with other infected and attack the non-infected, tear their flesh, suck blood, cut off pr!vate párts, jubilate, and even have s3x naked in the street.

How is the virus transmitted?
It’s in the air. Once it enters someone’s brain, the person starts thinking about violence, killing, and s3xual acts, and there’s no satisfaction point.

The storyline and the main characters

Kim and Kat, a young couple living and enjoying real love in the city, heard about the virus but didn’t take it seriously. Kat went to work, and while on the train, the virus trickled in and got into the minds of some people. That’s how the killing started—in a very brutal way—such as plucking out people’s eyes, tearing flesh, sucking blood, and even bathing in blood while in a joyous mood. Kat couldn’t believe her eyes because almost everyone on the train was enjoying the show, except her and just a few others. She rescued someone whose eye had been plucked out and headed to the hospital, while one of the infected men chased them because he wanted to finish his work.

Kat reached out to Kim via phone, and at home too, Kim’s neighbour got infected and used a flower spear to cut off his fingers, but he managed to kill the neighbour.

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Kim told his wife to stay put while he came to get her—but did that happen? Their end story gave birth to the title of the movie because Kim got infected along the way. Did I spoil it? Maybe a bit—but there’s more to this movie that interested and freaked me out.

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The editor and producers at large understood the movie script very well, and that made the brutal scenes feel very real—even though they appeared fake a bit, with the excess blood pumps and baths. I won’t lie; I love how they worked on the graphics.

The best part for me was when the president of China was making announcements and begging everyone to stay calm because they were working on controlling the situation. Then, the soldier standing beside him got infected and put a bomb in his mouth(president's mouth)—and his head, yes, the president’s head, blew off! And guess what? That happened while they were on national TV, live on air.

I have written a lot already.
This movie is a 10/10 rating for me.

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Thanks for reading.