ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Please forgive me for doing a copy-and-paste review of this movie, but I haven't seen it and I wanted to get a discussion going.

That said, here's this from Wikipedia:
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Contagion is a 2011 medical thriller disaster film. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle.

The plot of Contagion documents the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. Contagion makes use of a "hyperlink narrative" style popularized in several of Soderbergh's other films to follow several interacting plot lines.

Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns had collaborated on The Informant! (2009).

Following the release of that film, the two considered creating a biopic covering the life of Leni Riefenstahl before Burns brought up the idea of producing a medical thriller film depicting the rapid spread of a virus, which was inspired by various pandemics such as the 2003 SARS epidemic and the 2009 flu pandemic.

To devise an accurate perception of a pandemic event, Burns consulted with representatives from the World Health Organization, as well as renowned medical personnel such as W. Ian Lipkin and Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant. Principal photography started in Hong Kong in September, and continued in Chicago, Atlanta, London, Geneva, and San Francisco until February 2011.
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(My take on this movie)

The film was similar to Outbreak, which I enjoyed very much. I admired the accuracy of the science used in the plot. I recommend it.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bongopete]

Talk about seeing a movie and then being hyper aware of things I was touching for days afterwards!!!!!

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's the trailer from YouTube.


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[MetroPolly]

Count me in with Bongo. For weeks after seeing it, I wouldn't leave the house without a bottle of hand sanitizer.

[Krel]

I remember when the movie came out, I read an article that discussed the movie with Doctors. They said that the disease depicted in the movie would be the best kind to have. It had such a short incubation rate, that it would burn itself out before it could spread that widely. Their nightmare is a disease that takes about a week to incubate, it could spread around the world before they knew it existed.

David.

[Bud Brewster]

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I hate to say it, but that sounds exactly like Covid 19. Life imitates art, eh?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)