Love and Lost: Pandememi Five -year is a re -examination of Covid emotionally fragmented

For those who are too lucky to lose our beloved person, 12 months between March 2020 and March 2021 now have a strange dream quality. Considering the period, usually in the context of boredom and strangeness; bread making and home education; extreme Tiger King And I wonder if it is too early for a glass of wine in 4. Could it be five years since Boris Johnson stopped on the podium, shook hands with Covid patients and announced the first locking soon after?

Catey Sexton, Director of BBC One Love and Lost: Pandememi 5 years laterHe’s aware of this. “Forget and we’re hurry to continue, or he says. However, it is not that easy for Sexton and tens of thousands. He lost his mother during the first Covid wave. His mother was one of the thousands of people who were jumped in care homes behind Matt Hancock’s famous “protective ring .. “The only thing I could do was to shake through the window, Se the Sexton remembers. “My mother couldn’t understand why I was outside”. Later in the film, he expands his grief. “My mother spent her whole life looking at everyone, or he says. “That’s why I’m the biggest sorrow, I can’t do it for him in the end”.

For the loan and the benefit of the film, Sexton keeps it far from the story in which he describes his own experience, or intertwined with the sorrow of other old people he interviews. He knows that he understands issues, and the result is a common witness and commemoration. The narrative of the film is actually linear, which is a simple decision that gives the film gently a polymemic power. This rightly, never allowed to crush personal loss stories – but equally correctly, never completely dispersed. The British government misunderstood pandem in installments and is here in a thin but convincing way. Accepting the extreme difficulty of the task that encounters the government, a woman says, orum I don’t want to head in nails, ”he says. All of them are to watch this movie, reminding us how bad we have failed by our leaders at that time. And for many of us, how much is the cost of this failure.

At the same time, Boris Johnson addressed the nation, NHS workers supported themselves. They were preparing to sacrifice – and more than 2,000 would be the greatest sacrifice. We get news from the Areema Nasreen family– Covid caught in the hospital where he worked – he was also the hospital where he gave birth to his children. And the family of Rebecca Regan, who was sleeping in a caravan, did not bring the virus to his family’s house– and cannot be vaccinated because he is pregnant. After a while, applause for the caregivers began to feel himself and was chosen– But it started, here we reminded both of spontaneous and almost painful.

The weekly applause is one of the many times that captures you in the film; It reminds me of many surreal moments that look normal during their pandemia. But always, memories are filtered by loss and grief. Rishi is treated with the disdain that he deserves to help the altar of altar. But in reality, as the year passed, nobody handed themselves well. Inevitably, the country’s physical health crisis has become a mental health crisis.

Jenny McCann remembers his brother John as a man who loves life. He was obsessively healthy, enjoyed his bodybuilding, and he was paying attention to what he ate. As 2020 continued, it became increasingly sensitive to conspiracy theories. He fed suspicions of insulation and rejected the vaccine. In 2021, the virus killed him. McCann, “I do not pass with my brother because he believes in conspiracy theories anymore,” he says. “I am passing the disinformation with pedestrian vendors.”

This film clearly reveals that Covid has never ended for many people. Some have a long Covid. Others are still protected. However, for those who are old, there is nothing but sadness and often anger in unnecessary losses of dear family members. Sexton then offers a nuanced point of view. There is a bench overlooking the sea dedicated to Rebecca Regan. In some cases, as a result of the failure of the government, there is a newly activated sense of political participation. And even a new Drag artist: Ellis chanted the loss of his grandfather Berrice to Queera Lynn – Part Drag Queen, as a tribute to his grandfather’s favorite singer. “It is very easy for these people to shift and become a number, Ellis says Ellis says Ellis. “But in fact, they were facts and they meant something”. Catey Sexton made a moving, important and timely film; He makes all of them justice.