Fake documentaries of parallel universes

Creola 2022-03-19 09:01:03

I have seen the movie three times, I have seen it in 12 years, I have seen it last year, and I have seen it recently. The last time I saw it, I was heartbroken.

The film review has some spoilers, and it is strongly recommended to watch this pseudo-documentary and learn to watch it.


The definition of a disaster movie is - to allow people to sit at home and feel the ups and downs and thrills of a roller coaster, feel everything the movie subject feels, but without exposure to any danger.

From this perspective, this film should be classified as a pseudo-documentary rather than a disaster film, because now people sitting at home can feel the danger experienced by the people involved in the film when they feel the thrills.

Since it is a documentary, I will dry up and list some of the fur I have learned from watching the film.

What is R0, R0 is the basic infection number. During outbreaks, R0 is indeterminate and variable. The R0 of SARS is less than 1, the smallpox is close to 2, and the movie says 3 in order to make an effect. There are various theories about the R0 number of the new crown.

Minimize touching your face during an infectious disease outbreak. This advice is actually against human instinct. It is said in the movie that ordinary people touch their faces thousands of times a day.

In the face of unknown viruses, medical personnel are still very likely to be infected even if they are well protected. In addition to the respiratory department, which takes the lead, doctors in some other departments have a high probability of being infected by the virus because the protection is not strict enough in the first place. There is a scene in the movie where a doctor performing a craniotomy is splashed by a patient's body fluids on a medical mask, and instantly thinks of a doctor and nurse in a neurology department.

The virus in the movie is also contagious during the incubation period. The 2011 movie was made after SARS, which was not contagious during the incubation period.

It is mentioned in the movie that when there are not enough hospitals to effectively isolate them, using gymnasiums or similar venues to manage patients in a decentralized manner can confine a large number of viruses to one place instead of spreading them out. This approach is faster and can accommodate more patients.

During a disease outbreak, in addition to paying attention to people's physical health, they should also pay attention to people's mental health.

Shuanghuanglian News from Shanghai Institute of Medicine and Jude Law are a perfect fit: Forsythia, have you heard of Forsythia?

Why is it said that dissemination of false information in extraordinary times is very harmful? In the movie, when healthy people and suspected patients line up together to wait for Forsythia, it gives the chance of secondary infection of the bacteria; in any society, Forsythia or Shuanghuanglian are hyped When you get up, it will not be enough. The staff of the pharmacy is sitting on the powder keg. You don't know what people who can't buy or grab forsythia will do.

International cooperation is the key to tackling large-scale infectious diseases. The CDC people are coming.

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Extended Reading
  • Ally 2022-03-22 09:01:19

    Without premeditating, bats and domestic animals have squeezed the key to the gate of hell into human hands. Without ever having an exercise, speculation and rumors have turned pervasive panic into performance art. Before God has come, the devil in his arms has already begun to sell cheap anger. Death came quietly, and the compassionate warrior was still struggling to rescue him. Viruses can't be forbidden just like smuggling, mutations are just as unpredictable as chaos. Once mankind loses the only remaining order, the whole world will become feverish. Soderberg doesn’t follow his routines, and the whole narrative without focus can easily make people confused at first glance, but this kind of shepherding style shooting is the most real. In the face of this end-of-life panic, there is no protagonist. Or maybe everyone is the protagonist. The sense of fear he created is diffusely scattered across the bridges like a virus, so it looks scattered and trivial, but it has full stamina. It is a pity that while presenting multiple perspectives, I gave up on digging in depth. Many questions were not answered, and only records were made. It seems that it is not unreasonable to call bats the incarnation of vampires in Western legends.

  • Donna 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Such a mediocre to bleak story, why waste the cast... The multi-line and multi-character narrative seems empty and unnecessary, and finally the baggage comes out and feels cheated. John Hawkes, the cleaner of three shots, has nothing to lick, he looks so old...

Contagion quotes

  • 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.