This film is about how a deadly infectious pandemic impacts the lives of four young people who would have had good lives had not they been faced with this terrible challenge. The central characters decide to travel to a holiday destination that two brothers went to during their childhood for reasons that don't seem entirely rational, but this is not a surprise given their circumstances. On the way they are forced to confront difficult choices to the point of realising that if they are to survive other survivors who may or may not be infected may have to die (in other words they may have to kill them). The film makers maintain the tension very well despite a slightly slow pace and grim subject but the real strength of the film is the superb acting which was needed to grip the audience because the structure of the film offers few surprises. Having said that I do think that a longer perspective on a pandemic situation, a very real possibility, could have made a more interesting film.
Review of Carriers
