Compared with "Influenza", this is an underrated classic

Annalise 2022-03-16 09:01:02

Contagion: Infectious disease.

Contact: contact, contact.

As a species on earth, human beings are always in contact with the natural environment, and everyone is always in contact with others.

The film uses the spread of new viruses in humans as a story carrier, and outlines the good and evil of human nature.

Panic is a more terrifying contagion than the disease itself. In the face of crisis, human beings driven by primitive desire and instinct exposed extreme violence, selfishness, lies, ignorance, evil and other dark sides of human nature, which completely destroyed the human social order, but at the same time, people helped each other, fought bravely, and were kind The human brilliance of compassion is also revealed in disasters and crises. And whether it is good or evil, it is also contagious/spread.

In front of nature, human beings are always just insignificant existences. Our cognition of the world has never been complete, and nature has never stopped testing human beings. For nature, there is no difference between humans and monkeys. However, the difference between humans and monkeys is that we have great and brave scientists like Erin, who never stop in the face of the unknown. , dedicate yourself to a higher purpose.

At the end of the film, the order of human society is restored again, and the source of the infectious virus is traced back. Every link in this food chain is closely related. Therefore, what people need to think about is never how to live in harmony, but how to live in harmony with nature. Revere nature and life, because we are all in it, even if we have never met, we have never been out of touch.

This is the ideological connotation conveyed by "Infectious Diseases". And "Influenza" is just a big scene that is used in Korean disaster films. The atmosphere expresses the darkness of politics. The perspective and pattern are not as good as "Infectious Diseases", and the whole "Infectious Diseases" has no gorgeous and exaggerated methods. The details, the delicate performances of the excellent cast, explain the profound things in simple language, which can be called classics.

The shooting method of "Infectious Diseases" is from a third perspective, similar to a documentary, quietly and restrained peeling the onion of this story, the details are more metaphorical, profound and advanced. And "Influenza" relies on the shaping of scenes and atmosphere, does not pay attention to the rationality of the plot, and the details are too exaggerated, which is really artificial.

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Extended Reading
  • Jeffry 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Century war epidemic

  • Paris 2022-03-24 09:01:22

    Of course, we can say that all aspects of the lost focus are that Soderbergh intends to use a huge format to describe the necessary loss in the process of a story that convinces the audience, or the true record of the observer's perspective. Among them, Jude Law’s line is very interesting. The grassroots pubic hair is unbelievable. I believe the government is grateful to the country for a good life.

Contagion quotes

  • 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.