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Andy Meek
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- The strict, 76-day coronavirus lockdown in Wuhan, China -- where the COVID-19 virus originated, and which set off a global pandemic -- is captured in a harrowing new documentary, called 76 Days.
- The documentary is able to be streamed virtually at the moment via a number of different film festivals, such as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival this weekend.
- The movie depicts the human cost of the coronavirus pandemic in a place some American leaders have written off, thanks to blanket rhetoric demonizing China and its leadership. This documentary is about the people who paid the price, who fought the virus, and who slowly built up the knowledge about this pathogen that humans have never confronted before -- knowledge that we here now benefit from.
If you're one of the lucky ones whose life has not been directly touched by the coronavirus pandemic -- if yours is not among the US families crushed by the more than 213,000 deaths here from COVID-19 since the outbreak began earlier this year -- much of what you know about the virus may be filtered through the prism of news coverage. Or maybe it's the other things that have impacted your life, like your hours at work having been cut; a sign at the corner store apologizing for being closed; friends and loved ones who've lost their jobs; the incessant droning of political ads and the election season sloganeering; on and on. You get the idea.
When you go from that to actually being confronted with the human cost and misery associated with everything from coronavirus lockdowns to the deadly virus itself, it's so jarring to experience. That's how I felt after watching 76 Days, a new documentary about the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, where the virus first originated and from whence it spread to eventually cover the globe. Smarter people than me will, as we draw closer to the end of 2020, prepare the usual lists of the best movies of the year, based on how they performed, how many people streamed them, and all the other usual metrics. However, please allow me to make a case for 76 Days being perhaps the most important movie of this year, and one that you owe it to yourself to watch -- all at once, if at all possible, without any breaks or interruption.
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This documentary about the first days of COVID-19 in Wuhan will break your heart originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 09:02:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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