La epidemia

The scouts

A journalist stumbling onto a genocidal pension scheme via flu shot is the kind of premise that shouldn't work—too blunt, too conspiratorial—but Conde commits so hard to the absurdist core that it becomes genuinely subversive; most scouts would call it heavy-handed, which is exactly why it matters.

The satire operates within a recognizable lineage of political comedy, though the execution relies on broad strokes rather than the formal precision that distinguishes truly durable work in this mode; the conceit is clear, but the film doesn't seem to trust its own intelligence.

There's real craft in how Conde sustains the tonal whiplash between procedural journalism and cosmic horror, but the film's power lives in that one decision to play the vaccine-as-weapon reveal completely straight—no winking, no score manipulation—which makes the absurdity land where it might otherwise collapse.