Jeff Wolfe’s “Outbreak” (2024) is a low-budget metaphor-laden commentary on a massive virus outbreak that has engulfed a Californian locality. The film proceeds as a generic outbreak thriller. However, the ending problematizes our entire understanding of the information being given to us in bits and pieces, or at least what we tried so hard to establish from the incomplete shreds.

Outbreak (2024) Movie Synopsis & Plot Summary: Why does Neil act so distracted and aloof?

The film opens with a 911 dispatcher reporting a rabid dog attack at a construction site amid the arid Californian desert. Mourning Rock park rangers, Neil, Gibson, and their chief Mike Cortez, are en route to gun down the rabid dog. In the showdown between the rangers and the dog, Neil fumbles and fails to shoot the dog, leading to Cortez getting attacked by the animal. Finally, Gibson manages to pull the trigger and kill the dog. Neil...