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Now, I don’t know how many people remember the spring of a few years ago, and the latest number of patients will be updated in the TV news every day, which is panic. People with suitcases left the city with large-scale illnesses silently and quickly, and the airport station was quickly overcrowded after being overcrowded.
A similar scene was put on the screen by Stephen Soderberg this year and filmed as "Contagion". Of course, he explained that he was not completely recording the story of the year, and that the diseases in the movie were also fictitious. They were upgraded versions of SARS, H1N1 and other diseases, which were more pathogenic and lethal. Although the ratings for the premiere at the Venice Film Festival are not very high, it is still very popular on the American film review website "Rotten Tomatoes". I don’t know if this is because film critics in Europe feel less about these diseases than film critics in the United States, the severely affected area of SARS? But at least in Hong Kong cinemas, watching such a movie that sets the starting point in Hong Kong and Macau will make you feel inexplicably flustered. When the scene ends, when you see the doorknob, you will try not to touch it with your hands.
You might just have a good meal in Macau and then contract the deadly virus; you might just work in a casino and meet a customer in a good mood, and then you might be infected with the deadly virus; you might just be in the casino When you met someone who was absent-minded and pulled down the phone, he returned the phone to her out of good intentions, and then he was infected with a deadly virus; you might just catch the time to change planes with your old lover for a spring night, and then you were infected with the deadly virus; You might even just touch the doorknob she held, and then you contracted a deadly virus... Then all the people who had been in the same public space with these people, and those who had touched each other became new infected people and carrier.
At the beginning of the film, one after another people all over the world, foaming at their mouths, pale, and twitching all over. Soderbergh calmly shot these disturbing shots with the technique he was already familiar with in "Drug Network", with some shaking and frequent shots. The movie is set to be a story that takes place in the winter, and Soderbergh's shots are so cold that people are shivering deep in their hearts. Those common objects in daily life: cell phones, door handles, bus armrests...all under his lens, he has a ghastly "death-killing" temperament.
Like his "11 Arhats" and other movies, this is also a star-studded movie, but unlike ordinary Hollywood entertainment movies, all these stars are probably except for Jennifer Earl, who plays the role of the heroic doctor who is testing the vaccine on himself. Apart from this, there is no real hero who can save the world. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the super contagious, her long journey spread the virus all over the world. Most of the time, she flushed and looked sick. After returning home to meet with her husband played by Matt Damon, she quickly fell to the ground with convulsions. In the end, he dared to sacrifice his image and took a horrible shot of lying on the dissection table with his scalp being peeled off. Matt Damon’s performance after hearing about her death in the hospital was quite remarkable. Later, I fell into the fear of illness and contact with others, and the neurotic performance of refusing my daughter to contact outsiders also left a deep impression on people. When Kate Winslet played the preventive science doctor, she gave people high expectations, but after some running, she was also shrouded in horse leather. Like other people who died of illness, she was packed in body bags and buried. In a mass grave covered with lime.
The disease photographed by Soderbergh grows like a rainbow in a terrifying geometric order of magnitude. The panic surrounding this disease should probably be what Soderbergh wanted to show the most. Jude Law played an important role in this process of social panic: a freelance writer who thought he knew the ultimate truth. He constantly "exposed" the "lie" of the authorities on his blog, prepared his own anti-epidemic clothes, and visited the streets when there were no people. He also praised "Forsythia" as an antidote for disease prevention and treatment, so that this medicine was expensive in Luoyang for a while and even caused commotion. In such a panic, the theme of information asymmetry is also reflected in the plot of the national epidemic prevention consultant played by Lawrence Fischerburn secretly calling his wife to evacuate the core area.
Even if the doctor who studies vaccines played by Earle has used his own experiments and developed a virus that can resist this disease, the panic has not subsided. Soderberg didn't just confine his vision to the United States, but asked the whole world, who is eligible to use this medicine first? He used the plot of a Hong Kong native kidnapping Marion Cotillard's World Health Organization official to express his thoughts. Although the way he presents the questioning is a bit too simplistic and unbelievable, a bit too much like Hollywood's vulgar plot, but this is at least a rare reflection on other countries in Hollywood disaster films. This weird and popular plot unexpectedly raised the concept of the film, because unlike other Hollywood disaster films, places outside the United States were just destroyed one by one, or they were outsourced factories to make 2012 lifeboats.
In these cold and fast-paced plots, perhaps only the role of Earl can bring people some warmth. It seems that things like the ultimate defeat of the disease by one's own power can only happen in Hollywood movies. But if there is not even the slightest warmth, I am afraid Soderberg will find it difficult to invest in this truly terrifying and disturbing disaster film.
Behind the All-Star combination, the most terrifying thing is the invisible protagonist: what kind of terrible unknown disease will human society lead to? This invisible protagonist is the most terrifying. But for people who have really experienced the plague, the tension brought by such a movie is still inferior to the apocalyptic atmosphere that they have experienced in person. That kind of atmosphere is probably something that all movies can't really shoot.
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