The Plague at AMC 9 CO 10

4/4 stars on Rogerebert.com. We have all been adolescents, lets revisit from our grown up perspectives and be grateful we survived!

As adults, it’s tempting to look back on our younger years with a sense of wistful nostalgia. No responsibilities, no aches and pains, a full life and future ahead of us, nothing but friends and play and freedom. But for those of us who too easily forget that adolescence is, to be honest, a bitch, look no further than Charlie Polinger’s debut “The Plague,” a harrowing psychological thriller that transplants the tyranny of puberty to the anxieties of modern boyhood. It’s set in 2003, with the clothes and music and “Eighth Grade”-level early aughts awkwardness to match. Still, its twisting of bullying culture and the competitiveness of young boys portends all of the violent masculinities on display even today.
“The Plague” isn’t a horror movie per se, but it moves with the mood and music of one. Take its opening shot, the first of many that situates its young, innocent bodies in the great equalizer of water (in almost all cases, a large athletic swimming pool), the camera underwater watching limbs flail around in the blue while everyone’s heads are obscured above the surface. There’s a disorientation that happens when you try to navigate your body in water; you’re spindly, uncertain, consistently just a little bit afraid you’re going under. Right away, between these shots (courtesy of Steven Breckon’s unsettling cinematography) and Johan Lenox’s unsettling, vocal sample-heavy score, you already feel like you’re drowning. (Clint Worthington, Rogerebert.com)

Tickets available at the box office and online
https://www.amctheatres.com/showtimes/139511681/seats

Free Parking at the structure one block North of the theater

We will head to Postino after for snacks and discussion.