Dr. Ian Sussman: [Disparagingly to Alan] Blogging is not writing. It's graffiti with punctuation.
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?

Dr. Erin Mears: [Hesitantly] Taco Bell
Alan Krumwiede: Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein all in one.
Dave: My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?

Dr. Erin Mears: Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.
Jory Emhoff: [Rhetorically] Why can't they invent a shot that keeps time from passing?
First Haz-Mat: [Putting a body in a mass grave] When did we run out of body bags?

Second Haz-Mat: Two days ago.
Dr. Erin Mears: Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: How are you?

Dr. Erin Mears: It's good, we just finished setting up the...

Dr. Ellis Cheever: I didn't ask what you're doing, Beth, I asked how you are. So... how are you?
Minnesota Medical Examiner: Well, the sulci are obliterated. Let's look at the base.

Minnesota Medical Examiner: Oh, my God.

Assistant Medical Examiner: Do you want me to take a sample...

Minnesota Medical Examiner: I want you to move away from the table.

Assistant Medical Examiner: Should I call someone...

Minnesota Medical Examiner: Call everyone.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: We're working very hard to find out where this virus came from. To treat it and to vaccinate against it if we can. We don't know all of that yet, we just don't know. What we do know, is that in order to become sick you have to first come in contact with a sick person or something that they touched. In order to get scared, all you have to do is to come in contact with a rumor, or the television or the internet. I think what Mr. Krumwiede is uh... is spreading, is far more dangerous than the disease.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: You know where this comes from, shaking hands? It was a way of showing a stranger you weren't carrying a weapon in the old days. You offered your empty right hand to show that you meant no harm.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: But right now, our best defense has been social distancing. No hand-shaking, staying home when you're sick washing your hands frequently.
Dr. Erin Mears: The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs water fountains, elevator buttons and each other. Those things become fomites.
Dr. Erin Mears: How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms.

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Contagion short comments

Deron 2022-03-24 09:01:22

I don’t know what Soderbergh wants to explain. There are a lot of familiar faces, but almost all of them are symbolic characters without a sense of existence. The most important thing about multi-threaded narration is to maintain the specificity of the theme in the complex. In this film, we see only the branches of each fighting, there is no chemical reaction between the fragments; the only commendable is the cool-toned realistic photography and the fairly qualified apocalypse.
Bobby 2022-03-22 09:01:19

6.8 Although the film is unsatisfactory and too scattered, I still admire Soderberg’s creative ideas and turn this incurable infection into the greatest fear of all kinds of people. The characters are all struggling to beg for mercy in this world. If they can handle the character clues and plot design, they can become a masterpiece. And combined with the current context, the content is quite alarming.