2012 was deranged because it was hopeful and terrified in equal measure. We thought the world might end. When it didn't, we woke up on December 22, 2012, realized we had to go back to our jobs, and decided to wear galaxy print leggings and a fedora anyway.
As the death toll rises, the movie highlights the chaos of a public health system overwhelmed by a lack of transparency and corporate interference. Production and Impact
The auditory landscape of deranged 2012 is perhaps its most defining feature. The charts were a battleground of eclecticism that should have resulted in a civil war.
We are introduced to Jae-hyuk (Kim Myung-min), a former pharmaceutical salesman turned family man who is struggling with the financial burdens of modern life. When a mysterious epidemic begins to claim victims in his vicinity, Jae-hyuk discovers that the cause is a mutant horsehair worm (yeongasi). These parasites, growing inside the human body, hijack the host’s nervous system, compelling them to seek water. The result is a terrifying compulsion to drown oneself in any available source—whether it be a river, a bucket of water, or a toilet bowl.
A separate horror film with the same title was also released in 2012, directed by Neil Jones.