Transparency is the vaccine against an epidemic of social panic

Raquel 2022-04-19 09:01:26

"Influenza" and "Infectious Diseases" are based on stories from different cultural backgrounds in the East and the West. Therefore, when disaster strikes, the performance of characters at different levels has their own cultural characteristics. However, in one point, they are in the movie. It is exactly the same: they all think that their people are ignorant and cannot bear the cruelty of the truth, so they all use the means of suppressing and blocking news.

In comparison, the governments of big countries in "The Wandering Earth" are much more open, and the people of big countries don't seem to be so ignorant and low-end.

There is always a gap between art and reality.

The quality of this movie is quite high, and it is definitely worth watching patiently. Many details are worth watching and thinking deeply. Don't spend 3 or 4 minutes talking about the movie.

It loses a lot of the glitz of commercial films, and adds a lot of the coolness of documentaries. With a plain and cold tone, it reflects the performance of different stakeholders under disasters - it may be true.

Just like the order in which the stories are told in the play, in an epidemic, what is more important is what people choose to do, which determines the step-by-step development and outcome of the epidemic, not how the source of the disease comes from, just like now.

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  • Dane 2021-10-20 19:02:36

    Explain the root cause of the infection clearly: humans tear down vegetation-inhabited bats fly into human farms-virus carriers fall into pigsties-pigs become intermediate hosts-butchers kill pigs-contact with hotel customers without washing hands and infection-customers become super Source of infection... This is the beginning of the story and the beginning of the nightmare. A special period is worth watching. Put it in the past, this is an ordinary movie. Putting it in the present, it is more important to the world than anything else.

  • 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.

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.