Syd is a salesman at the clinic. He is also one of the technicians who copy protect the illnesses. This is to ensure the injections won't be infectious. By copyrighting whatever illness is injected into their clients, they guarantee that anyone who wants the illness has to go directly to them.
But there is also a black market for these celebrity viruses. Syd is involved in this sideline, managing to smuggle the viruses out of the clinic by injecting them himself. Not the best move, but Syd is kind of obsessed with one of their top celebrities, Hannah Geist.
After another salesman is arrested for selling viruses on the black market, Syd is assigned to extract blood from Hannah who is stricken with the flu. Since the clinic has an exclusive contract with Hannah, Syd injects it into himself as he can make big money on the black market. Unfortunately for Syd, he gets extremely ill(duh), blacks out, and then discovers that Hannah has died from the flu. Uh oh.
The movie is stark and disturbing. As if wanting to be injected with a celebrity illness isn't crazy enough, there are butcher shops where people can purchase cell steaks. These are disgusting looking pieces of meat(?) that are grown from celebrity cells, which essentially makes anyone who buys them a cannibal.
The clinic and Syd's apartment are a sterile, bright white with a little black here and there, and very harsh lighting. Syd himself has red hair and is very pale. As his illness progresses, he seems to get smaller and paler. The actor who plays Syd does a nice job with the character.
It's an interesting movie, but not something you want to watch if you're looking for action or a fast pace. Brandon Cronenberg (son of David) is behind this one.
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