Soderberg's Contagion (2011)
"Nothing spreads like fear"
There has been many movies about the 'end of the world' and even about outbreaks/pandemics. With technology and everyone connected globally - panic spreads faster than the virus. We are helpless but 'as audience' we are confident someone will find something. What Contagion sets apart is the 'realistic' set problems of this problem. Chaos & Anarchy is just days away even in civilized world as fear of survival seeps in. If the situation were hopeless, the whole world would end happily; but reality is only a select group gets access to the cure not by natural selection (or lottery), but selection by 'power'.
"Nothing spreads like fear"
There has been many movies about the 'end of the world' and even about outbreaks/pandemics. With technology and everyone connected globally - panic spreads faster than the virus. We are helpless but 'as audience' we are confident someone will find something. What Contagion sets apart is the 'realistic' set problems of this problem. Chaos & Anarchy is just days away even in civilized world as fear of survival seeps in. If the situation were hopeless, the whole world would end happily; but reality is only a select group gets access to the cure not by natural selection (or lottery), but selection by 'power'.
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