This fly-on-the-wall documentary covers the harrowing time a few weeks after the lockdown began in Wuhan. With any film that deals with China, and especially with a film that deals with such a charged topic like COVID, I was worried that there was influence from the Chinese government. But, upon listening to a follow up Q&A, I am assured that there was no influence from or catering to the Chinese government. In fact, one of the filmmakers is uncredited as anonymous. Thus, my point here is that, the moving stories depicted here are genuine, not some sentimental engineering. There is no superimposed "angle" here, at least not an explicit one. You see the real dedication of doctors, nurses, and other frontline workers at the very beginning of the pandemic. You see both the genuine fear and gratefulness of the patients. I was both fascinated and moved.
Review of 76 Days
