Contagion Movie Blurb by Shale September 9, 2011 This was my movie pick of the week and I want to tell you this is a worthwhile movie to see. I agree with the 82% of aggregate critics on Rottentomatoes who like it - and the 70% of audiences that do. I thot of the movie And The Band Played On while watching this one and they are similar except that one was a docudrama about events that actually happened and this one is a docudrama about a fictitious but plausible flu-like pandemic that kills millions of ppl. And just as with And The Band Played On, the focus of the movie is not the numerous name-worthy actors in it but the progression of the virus, the chaos of societal breakdown in face of a worldwide killer disease and the race to stop the disease. The movie opens with Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) flying back to Chicago from a business trip in Hong Kong. She has a cough. Beth Partying in a Hong Kong Casino Back home in Minneapolis with her husband Mitch (Matt Damon) she gets progressively sicker, faints and has seizures. Rushed to the hospital, she dies and pending an autopsy they consider it meningitis. Mitch’s stepson also gets sick and dies and he is put into isolation. But apparently he is immune to the disease and he and his daughter Jory (Anna Jacoby-Heron) have to adjust to the new reality. Free Food Supermarket – If You Don't Get Mugged The movie then shows us that others are getting sick with flu-like symptoms and dying all over the world. This comes to the attention of Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) leads a team to investigate. Lyle Haggerty, Dr. Ellis Cheever & Dr. Ally Hextall It is soon apparent that this is a worldwide pandemic and the projections are for millions of ppl to succumb to the disease if a vaccine is not found. The World Health Organization is on it and in the US the TSA and government are making contingency plans for mass deaths and social disarray. This movie is scary because you know this would happen. Part of the reality of the movie is a conspiracy blogger Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) who is spreading messages to millions that homeopathic cures work and that the CDC and government are keeping the truth from the ppl. We know this guy would (does) exist. Man on a Mission I enjoyed this movie, perhaps because it is more realistic than the usual end-times story and in a way we have already seen the disinformation, ignorance and overreactions of ppl when faced with a deadly virus that was not as easily spread. This movie even made reference to the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 that killed 50 million ppl or 1% of the world’s population. I found the movie fascinating and timely (have you had your seasonal flu shot yet?)
Thanks for review; i think I'll go see it :2thumbsup: Well I’ve got a forsythia bush in my yard, I guess I’d better reinforce my backyard fence with razorwire H
I was entertained by the film, but thought it was nothing I hadn't seen before. I think some of my disappointment was due to the fact I was expecting something a little more apocalyptic in nature, and what I got was something rather tame and predictable.
entertaining movie, typical plot, solid acting, AMAZING soundtrack. check it out, outbreaks and all that good stuff.
Meh i thought it was alright. It kinda did too much, tried to be both a survival/thriller and a political thriller and it didn't gel together very well. In a film like this the audience is meant to care for the characters but i really didn't feel a thing when any of them died because the film didn't allow me.
