Great film, short but expected for this independent.
You have to realize this is an independent project. There isn't any WB or MGM money bankrolling it
Having said that, there are no executives trying to "reach" every audience. It is a great film, I would of loved it in highschool or in an ecology class. I supported it when it was trying to come out. Acting is top notch. As an MD/MBA in healthcare management, it is a great history lesson because we still use the basic methods Snow started back at the pump. If you're not an avid lower of evidence based medicine, need not worry, the acting is more than sufficient. It left me as a viewer questioning the background of each character, there was a lot of mystery to the background of the characters. I feel that this film with more $$$ would of haven been great. It is just hard to please an audience who believes Abe Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Amazing Public Health History!
I spent my career in public health so this short movie was great. I think it would be a great teaching tool for science classes at the middle to high school level--hopefully it will give some students the nudge to study epidemiology later. Made me proud to have chosen the career path that I did. A great book that goes further into detail about this subject and appeared to me to be the outline for this movie is The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How it Changed Sciences, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson.
"Snow" - campy - melodramatic
A very melodramatic and to some extent shallow "take" on the life of Snow. Pales in comparison to The Ghost Map by Johnson. Some of the scenes evoke a feeling for Victorian London... but that can also be found in Mayhew... or in Polanski's Oliver Twist.
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