Some people think that "Contagion" is a documentary. Some people think it's a popular science film.
I think it's a war movie.
In the long history of the world, wars are often associated with plagues, resulting in problems such as exposing corpses, shortages of water resources, and shortages of medical facilities.
For example, the United States, which started its civil war from 1861 to 1865, killed 60% to 70% of its soldiers from the north and south of the "malaria".
For example, at the end of the First World War from 1918 to 1920, the "Spanish flu" swept across Europe, Asia and Africa, killing 100 million people.
For example, in Yemen, which has suffered from frequent wars since 2016, "cholera" has claimed more than one million lives.
War zones are often epidemic zones as well. This statement is also true in reverse.
Compared with South Korea's "Influenza", the film "Infectious Diseases" is much more professional and authentic.
It references the Nipah virus in Malaysia in 1998-1999:
Human activity has expanded into wildlife habitats. They built pig farms next to bat habitats. The bat ate the fruit, and the contaminated fruit fell from the bat's mouth into the pigsty. The pig that ate the fruit became a virus host and was brought to the table to infect people.
In this movie, you will find a lot of big-name actors, but none of them are the main characters.
Virus? Neither.
Does the group portrait-style sociological shooting method reflect the appearance of all beings?
more than.
I think the deeper sense is to describe "modern warfare" in the era of peace.
It is the "value struggle" and "power struggle" in the internal human society under the background of the "Battle of the Living Space between Humans and Other Animals".
Morality, value, fairness, trust, order, civic consciousness, etc. are the products of civilization, just like human life.
The struggle for value and the struggle for power
Day 2
Values:
The first married female executive in Hong Kong who contracted the new virus after shaking hands with a chef who handled sick pigs without washing her hands.
Have eaten nuts, touched ID cards, used signature pens, kissed lovers and sons.
He died 4 days later, but the husband, who loved the family, survived because he was immune to the virus.
Of course, the lover died later of the infection.
Deaths at this time: 1
The right to speak:
Allen, a news reporter represented by online media, paid attention to the abnormality of the first patient who died in Japan, and was ignored and suppressed by colleagues represented by paper media.
The little people who were not valued immediately began to embark on the road of revenge.
In fact, from another perspective, Allen's information sensitivity is the same as that of our Dr. Li Wenliang, both of whom have been "whistleblowers".
However, no one cared what they said.
So, one went to the road of revenge, and the other went to the road to heaven.
Deaths at this time: 3
Day 6
authority:
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) held an internal meeting with the military (government) to dispute whether to publish virus abnormalities to remind the public to be vigilant. There is some very professional knowledge here.
For example, the basic infection base RO, and the determinant of the virus proliferation rate.
The government wins, delays the disclosure, and observes the situation.
Deaths at this time: 15
Day 8
trust:
The government announced the cities affected by the epidemic.
The CDC dispatched a female investigator to investigate the whereabouts of the first female executive before the death, and directed the deployment of epidemic prevention measures, and selected venues for patient isolation.
Reporter Allen has become a blogger and began to plot conspiracy theories about biological and chemical weapons to guide public opinion.
Under Allen's deceit, the public began to suspect that the CDC and the government were concealing the truth.
At the same time, the Swiss WHO dispatched epidemiologists to Hong Kong, where the female executive was on a business trip.
Deaths at this time: > 1000
Day 14
privilege:
Female investigator infected.
Allen had 2 million followers before, and some pharmaceutical companies among the speculative businessmen approached him and recognized his information sensitivity and public influence. The two sides colluded to profit from securities by predicting the trend of events.
And Allen lied that he was infected, took a video to record the process of taking forsythia, and spreading forsythia is the antidote. Further want to confirm to the masses that the CDC and the government are lying.
The nurses went on strike collectively. The military was about to block off Chicago, the hardest-hit area of the epidemic. The CDC asked to use resources to bring back the female investigator, but the military refused on the grounds that "the congressmen have been brought home for dinner and took up resources."
Death toll at this time: >10000
Day 18
order:
Forsythia was snapped up, the order collapsed, and the masses smashed, smashed and burned pharmacies, supermarkets, and individual residents' homes.
The paper media colleague who had previously suppressed Allen was infected while queuing for medicine and died immediately.
Allen became an official freelance writer and slandered the CDC for colluding with pharmaceutical companies, further confounding public judgment.
Day 131
fair:
The vaccine was successfully tested on the 29th day. After the female scientist pierced herself and observed it for 100 days, it was approved and put into production.
Both CDC officials and government officials had their share in advance. The public can only decide to get the vaccine batch through the lottery of the birthday date.
Allen's fans reached 12 million, and the emergence of the vaccine proved Allen's lie, and the public seized him and sent him to the police station.
He was released on bail two days later.
So far, after 3 to 4 months of hard work, Tyler virus A has come to an end.
One fact we can find is:
The plague just amplifies the impact of competition in human society with the scale of the number of deaths, and it also proves the vulnerability of human society in the face of natural ecology.
From individuals to groups, from citizens to governments, in the face of natural forces, the gradual collapse of order is so easy.
Humanity has never really conquered the plague.
The AIMM company, which appeared four times in the whole film, is not because of the excessive occupation of the earth's resources and space by human activities, and the retribution finally fell on its own employee, the first female executive who died.
Without cause, there is no effect, history is always similar, and reincarnation is always similar.
It is nature, not man, that has been advancing.
Alan's voice was not heard, and he took revenge.
The voices of nature were not heard, and she retaliated.
Respect is for each other.
In addition, the film also illustrates a few truths:
1. Viruses are as unstoppable as cheating, and mutation is as unpredictable as chaos. Once human beings lose the only remaining order, the whole world will start to heat up.
2. In the era of big data, be cautious in words and deeds and pay attention to virtue. Because you don't know if all your privacy will be called out for reference after you die.
3. Being a good person like the husband of a female executive has a lot of virtue, which may make you the lucky one who is immune to the virus. Or, be a bad guy like Ellen, selfish but cautious, but don't hurt anyone.
4. Wash your hands frequently, wear a mask, be vigilant and don't relax.
5. Respect nature.
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