Troma-studio among the second-rate films is known for its thrashing banter and frenzy, but “Murderer Microbe” is a completely different movie, a film-reasoning.
So, in one hotel room, three state agents gather to "close the block" and celebrate. Sydney is a boy with burning blood, Bobby is a middle-aged professional in his field, and Billy is a legend in his circles of the same state agents of pre-retirement age. Their job is to eliminate all the signs of a mythical disease (I will say a few words about this later, so as not to distract from the main topic) reigning everywhere by finding and subsequently killing an infected citizen. They treat the elimination of the object with a creative approach - then the bow, then the knuckle, then the bat, then the suffocation, and so on - selection with very careful meaning, like an artist drawing a picture. Sydney is reckless and careless about his newly acquired job, he is "young but very fast to learn" - the first stage of professional growth. The absolute opposite of Sydney is Bobby - to the bone a professional in his field, absolutely pedantic from a strict business suit to conscientious filling out documents about the work done. Any object is only the goal of his next work; sex, age, position mean absolutely nothing to him - the goal will find and destroy it, and no unnecessary questions. “Whatever age a crime is a crime. Any age, any gender, any race does not matter to me, if you have a virus, then I become your medicine. This formula was invented for a reason to purify this country, to make it great again. I am proud to do my duty! In his work, he even finds a certain high. He, perhaps the only one among the three gathered, was not tormented by ghosts, because the work ate his soul and there was nothing to pursue in him. Not for nothing at the end of the film in the speeches of Sydney began to respond to his ideas, thereby embarked on the path of professionalism without the soul already passed Bobby. I can smell your fear and the taste of your defeat. Questions will come later, with age, like Billy. Having served faithfully to his state for 30 years without being interested in anything superfluous, work is work, on the horizon of old age, there are still real reflections on what he actually did all this time, and he was already doing his job not as the leaders demanded, but according to his mental instinct. And so the first two do not want to believe that he actually did so, they want to believe that he just made a mistake, made a mistake, because they have great respect for him for his age of service and track record.
In principle, all three can be viewed as the image of one person in three age mirrors in relation to a career.
Yes, their “virus” has no name or explanation, the symptoms are very vague something related to oxygen, thereby complementing the atmosphere of life in locked rooms, conveying even more the essence of the urban existence of slaves among the stone walls.