Review Movie Contagion (2011) Same As Coronavirus

Review Movie Contagion (2011) Same As Coronavirus

If Coronavirus never happened, Contagion would still be an extraordinary film. Witness it in the middle of a pandemic; it was incredible. This is an experience which is poignant and frightening by the state of the world.

(This review is spoiler free)

Steven Soderbergh is the mastermind behind this project. He has always been a director who managed to create nuanced interpretations of what should be a bland premise. Tell him to make a theft movie, he makes Ocean's 11. Tell him to make a sex comedy, he makes Magic Mike.

Tell him to make a disaster movie, he makes a Contagion; nuanced interpretations of what lives in the middle of a pandemic can be like. A nuanced interpretation of how people from all walks of life will react to events that destroy the earth.

When I say all walks of life, he really covers every layer of life. The most remarkable thing about this film is that it combines each plot into a cohesive whole. They all feed each other, carefully developing the themes of the film.

Soderbergh succeeded in completely eliminating the cliché film. There are no bad business people or government officials to worry about. There is no big emotional scene where someone cries over a loved one. We don't need Matt Damon to cry to tell us that millions of dead people are bad. Soderbergh understands this.

Instead, he gives us a global scale through various plot lines. Although it mostly happens in the US and China, it feels like the world is represented.

This film shows the reaction of medical professionals and ordinary people with calmness. From Matt Damon's audience that stood up, it allowed the audience to understand how the community had become depraved, to doctor Marillon Cotillard who was willing to do anything for the vaccine.

This film received a warm welcome from scientists, something that I was not a little surprised after watching. The dialogue feels so authentic throughout the film and a little detail like the process of developing a vaccine that is transmitted to the big screen perfectly.

Of course, you cannot discuss this film without putting it in the context of current events. He gets a very large number, from uncertainty to different archetypes. You have people who say 'just the flu', you have teenagers who are tired of complaining, and of course, internet theorist the consist bloggers. Soderbergh's character makes evil delicious.

We cannot know exactly how exact, because the disease depicted in the picture is far worse than COVID-19, both in death and brutality. But I would not say it would be a stretch that society would really collapse if the virus in the film happened.

Contagion is a brilliant job. One of the most intelligent science fiction films of the last decade.

Who knows, it's always more science than fiction.

Rating: 9/10

Recommendation: A must see. Especially now.