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"Contagion" is a realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic. It's being marketed as a thriller, a frightening speculation about how a new airborne virus could enter the human species and spread relentlessly in very little time. This scenario is already familiar to us through the apparently annual outbreaks of influenza.
Apr 6, 2020 · The movie doesn't skimp on science. Contagion was a film released in 2011 about a fictional pandemic of a virus called MEV-1 which kills between 25 and 30 per cent of those it infected. Here...
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The film depicts the ways that pandemics and issues of public health are not simply scientific or social phenomena, but issues that are affected by geopolitics. Various state agencies must work together to help mitigate the virus; however, it is...
Feb 16, 2020 · Our experts think it's a realistic story — so realistic that Rebecca Katz, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, says she often shows the...
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Mar 25, 2020 · Warner Bros. Contagion begins on day two of a global pandemic caused by a fictional viral infection eventually dubbed MEV-1. The events of the film kick off when Minneapolis-based business ...
- Robert Balkovich
Contagion is a 2011 American medical disaster thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The plot concerns the spread of a highly contagious virus transmitted by ...
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Sep 12, 2011 · ““Contagion”” is an incredibly well-researched, disturbingly plausible, and extremely well-made film. With the exceptions of the vaccine production timetable and the downplaying of the damage to the economy and the critical infrastructure, Soderbergh and Burns got it right.
