"The opening moments of the script by Will Tracy ( The Menu, episodes of Succession) cast these demented shenanigans in an apocalyptic light. The fate of bees is much on Teddy's mind; colony collapse disorder, often caused by pesticides, is one of his talking points. It's a phenomenon that, in Bugonia - a movie reckoning with, or maybe just lamenting, humanity's fate - isn't just for the bees."
"She's a lauded corporate leader; her office includes a framed Time magazine with her on the cover and a photograph with Michelle Obama. Her company, Auxolith, operates out of a sleek office building where Michelle presides over her workforce like a queen bee. She has the corporate lingo of "transparency" and "diversity" down pat, but whether she actually adheres to any of those ideals is dubious, at best."
Bugonia is a darkly comic, apocalyptic satire about human and environmental collapse. An incel eco-terrorist named Teddy and his neurodivergent cousin Donny kidnap corporate CEO Michelle and imprison her in their rundown house. Teddy tends bees and preaches about colony collapse disorder while testing Michelle's corporate rhetoric of transparency and diversity against real-life consequences. Michelle runs Auxolith from a sleek office, presenting herself as a progressive leader while enforcing quotas and demanding long hours. The film blends savage humor with uneasy menace to examine corporate hypocrisy, ecological anxiety, and the fraught intersections of power, technology and empathy.
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