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I know this one has been out a while but I just got a chance to check it out. I was sent an eScreener so it just kind of sat on my computer for a few weeks, forgotten. But, I stumbled across it the other night and gave it a viewing and damn, am I glad I did.
I really like this movie.
Don't go into CONTAGION expecting a high octane thrill ride like OUTBREAK. This is not an action film. This film is terror in it most stripped down form. It's certainly not new subject matter, virus run amok films have been around for years.
CONTAGION does make an attempt to give us a realistic enactment of what could and most likely probably happen should a virus show up that no one knows how to control, a premise that is certainly very possible in this day and age.
Featuring an all-star cast and a powerful story line CONTAGION weaves an all to real scenario that begins with a woman returning home to her family from a trip overseas. She's not feeling well but is happy to be home. The next morning while buttering her toast she collapses and beings to have a seizure. Later at the hospital, she dies.
And so it begins.
Over the course of the next one and half hours we bear witness to humanity at it's best and and it's worst. While the medical community and government rushes to contain the virus life as we know it screams to a halt. Martial law is enacted and all hell breaks loose. Only a small segment of the population is immune to the disease and this virus is one fast moving, lethal bug.
The tag line for the film "Nothing spreads like fear!" pretty much sums up the film. There is not better cocktail for widespread panic than misinformation, fear and greed and CONTAGION intricately points out the cause and effect of all of them.
This film really held my attention and points out some glaringly obvious problems that we all already know exists. CONTAGION points out all the flaws and shows what will happen if the unthinkable would happen to occur. It's not a pretty picture.
I think what I liked most about CONTAGION is the fact that it didn't dumb itself down for the sake of drawing in a wider audience. The movie is hard to follow at times and a little high and mighty with its message but it's a good message, it's a scary message and it one that we all need to listen up and pay attention too.
At the end of the film we are shown a montage that explains how the whole thing starts up and it is so creepily possible that it makes me want to lock myself in a bubble and never come out.
One thing I know for sure, after watching CONTAGION you'll think twice every time you shake a hand, turn a door knob or hear someone sneeze close to you.
CONTAGION is available now pretty much everywhere, go check it out. Just wash your hands after handling the box.
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