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A pandemic has broken out, but nobody in Taiwan wants to do anything
about it - after all, it's election year, and the economy also doesn't
like to be disrupted by lockdowns and stuff that would already suffice to
tame the current plague. And then things get worse ... On his way to
work, Jim (Berant Zhu) witnesses everyday people in the streets having
violent fits and killing, eating and/or raping one another. Worrying as he
is, he immediately contacts his wife Kat (Regina), telling her that he'll
pick her up from work - a text she never receives as riding on the subway,
she witnesses random people killing one another, and saves a chance
acquaintance, Molly, whose one eye has been poked out in an attack. Thing
is, a so far harmless if annoying businessman (Wang Tzu-Chiang), who has
always had the hots for her, has caught the violence, and now he goes
after Kat full force. Kat manages to get to a hospital with Molly, but
even there they're not safe, and while Molly falls prey to the infected
eventually, Kat manages to save herself to a virologist's lab, who
promises to save her. Unfortunately, his idea of saving her differs from
hers quite a bit as he injects her with the virus, thinking her to be
immune, and then develops violent strains himself, becoming an utter
danger to Kat. Fortunately, Jim arrives at the hospital, as a message from
Kat has reached him after all and given him her whereabouts. Unfortunately
though, Jim is by now one of the infected ... Finding a balance
between visceral horror and genre-immanent irony, The Sadness is
above all a zombie film for the age of the Corona virus as in the
tradition of George A. Romero's early zombie movies, it's as much horror
as it's social commentary or even satire. That said though, The Sadness
is by no means a Romero-copycat, rather a very 21st century fast-paced
zombie flick that at times touches trash-territory, but always in a way
that seems to wink to the audience, and aims to entertain at all times -
and with quite some success as well.
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