Analysis Of The Movie 'Bubonic Plague'

Black Death, directed by Christopher Smith in 2010, it a movie, which's main idea is to show how the Black Death was in the Middle Ages. The movie is about a young monk, Osmund, who says to the woman he loved, Averill, to go to the forest because he wanted to protect her from the bubonic plague that had arrived at their city. After this, a village leader called Ulrich came with his army, which's members were Wolfstan, Hob, and Dalyway, to tell the monks that they’re going to investigate about a village that didn't have the Bubonic Plague, so they needed someone to guide them, because they wanted to know why the village didn’t have the bubonic plague. This lets the viewers understand that the Middle Ages were dark because there
The Bubonic Plague was a very common disease in that period that killed many people. Also, the Bubonic Plague didn’t occur only in one culture, it could occur in any people of England, Europe, Asia or Africa, but in the movie, they say that only Christians could have the bubonic plague because it was a “punishment from God”. This is one of the reasons why this representation isn’t accurate. As historians had discovered many things about the Middle Ages in the last 3 centuries, they said the Middle Ages were a “Bright age”, There were many developments in culture and arts, they discovered many things and they were full of happiness and constructive things, but in the movie they don’t show anything good, they only show the problems, so with this movie people can understand that the Middle Ages were very dark, that people were only sick and that god only punished the Christians, but that wasn’t true. Other things that happened in the movie that aren't true is that the monk had a lover. Church members couldn’t have a lover or romantic partners because they were defying god, but in the movie, everybody knew about her so that doesn’t make sense because the church didn’t accept it so that is a fallacy. The last argument that shows that isn’t accurate is that the movie didn’t show any social class apart from the knight and the church power, while, in the Middle Ages, most of the people were merchants and commoners who were in the street, but in this movie we don’t see any merchant in a street nor commoners in the village. The director should include more things of the Middle Ages because this doesn't explain well how the Middle Ages