Infection - Japan

          Director:  Masayuki Ochiai

          Year:  2004

          Plot:  "In a general hospital near bankruptcy, the reduced staff is working under a severe stress.  During the emergency attendance to a burned patient with Dr. Uozumi and two other nurses, Dr. Akiba and the nurse commit an error, injecting sodium chlorate and killing him.  Dr. Uozumi convinces the team to forge the report to save their careers.  Meanwhile, an ambulance leaves a patient in the emergency with a lethal infection.  When the muscles and internal organs of the patient liquefy, Dr. Kiyoshi Akai convinces his two colleagues to examine and research the virus, leading the employees of the night shift to a tragic end."

          I'm not to sure about how to talk about this movie.  It is so intricate that even at the end you don't fully understand what just happened.  The entire movie is about doing the right thing and treating people the way they should be treated.  When that doesn't happen, guilt burdens the staff tremendously, and the tragedy unfolds.

          I know a lot of people had a hard time understanding this movie.  There is so much information that you have to take into account and remember all the way through the movie even when everything is going crazy on screen.  It is a lot to take in, but that doesn't take away from the good points in the movie.

          I found a place where a person talks about this movie not making any sense and pretty much being a flop.  It seems they never really put the story together.  In reality it seems rather briliant.  It is a movie that you can only really understand after having watched it.  There is so many little things that build up.  While watching it, it all seems to have to do with the patient that they killed.  At the end this idea is thrown out due to a rather important piece.  This leads to a new theory about how one little inconspicuous patient leads to it all.  You’ll be introduced to him, but never really notice him.

          There are places where you can find out the meaning behind the stuff you don't fully understand.  Once you do, you are able to fully understand what happened in the movie.  Feeling guilty can destroy a person and inevitably it will do so.  Infection just shows that in a more complicated fashion.

          You definitely have to watch this movie.  It will definitely leave you a little bewildered, but it will not detract from the interesting storyline.  Once you start watching, it will be hard to stop.  You are definitely going to want to know how this one ends.  Also if you want anything explained.  Just ask me through the Contact Me page.  We wouldn’t want to give anything away on here.  n.n