Alpha 4K 2025 Ultra HD 2160p

In the 1980s, in the port city of Le Havre, Alpha is the only child of a young doctor working in a sealed hospital ward with patients infected by a virus. Thirteen years old, she is shunned by her classmates amid rumors that she carries a new disease. When she comes home from school with a tattoo of the letter "A" on her arm, her mother is devastated, fearing what illness her daughter may have caught from the tattoo needle. Her brother Amin, HIV-positive, is a hopeless drug addict with arms covered in needle marks. Alpha's tattoo begins to bleed more and more frequently, and the attacks against her at school intensify. In the school swimming pool, she nearly drowns after being assaulted by a classmate. Alpha barely knows her uncle, and when Amin comes to live with them, ravaged by illness and close to death, she truly meets him for the first time.

User Review
Alpha starts off really strong but loses the plot halfway through.

Alpha is about a teenage girl in the 80s who gets a tattoo, and her mom freaks out because she could have gotten "the virus." It clearly alluded to HIV , but the movie exaggerates it into a terrifying, almost horror-like disease.

The first half works great - we see how quickly she's treated like an outcast. Her boyfriend panics after kissing her, nobody wants to touch her, and the film links her to groups who were stigmatized at the time due to HIV (gay men, junkies, etc.). It's heavy stuff but handled well.

Then the second half happens. The focus shifts away from her and onto her junkie uncle, which just isn't as interesting. By the time the movie dives into its "dream within a dream" idea, it completely goes off the rails. I usually like weird, Lynch-style storytelling, but here it just felt messy and overcomplicated.

Alpha starts out as an emotional story about fear and stigmatization, but by the end the director is too clever and the plot just gets frustrating.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (85.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

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