This film is well-crafted, impressively shot and filled with impeccable performances from it's young cast. The story is subtly grotesque, psychological tormenting and cleverly written. The Plague, submerges itself into a blur that tests the boundaries between fantasy and reality. The "plague" itself plays with the idea of an illness that might be real or imaginary and serving as a metaphor of how fabricated rumors can spread fear and insecurity. Furthermore, the film cunningly explores themes about the cruelty of adolescence, toxic masculinity, the pressures of conformity, physical insecurity, social hierarchies and the effects of social exclusion. It's disturbing, atmospheric, slow but overall thought-provoking.

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