Danger comes from people's instinctive group portraits when they don't know who they are

Gust 2022-04-22 07:01:04

On the surface, the film talks about infectious diseases, but in fact it wants to express: greed, selfishness, fear, despicableness, and infidelity are a virus without a vaccine. However, it's all about the blandness. Maybe it's because I want to pack too many things through the theme of infectious diseases, but it feels fragmented and bland.

Under the perilous situation of human beings, there are still people who think about making the country and making money, some people only save their own relatives, some people beat, smash, loot and burn for wrongdoing, and some people betray their partners... These are incurable. Viruses, the so-called law, the so-called morality, the so-called noble qualities of saving people regardless of their own lives, are only temporary vaccines. The dark side of human nature will come back at any time and a large-scale outbreak will occur. No one knows how long the scourge of civilization will lurk.

The film is like a documentary, it lacks storytelling, and is a bit boring, but the macro layout of the end times is still contagious. The researcher who tested the vaccine on his own, the doctor who cooperated with the government gave the vaccine to the children of the cleaners, the local who kidnapped the WHO official and the kidnapped female official are actually helpless to understand each other, these are some warm feelings. The purpose of finding so many big names is to avoid the unattractiveness caused by the lack of storytelling, because there are many characters and they are not directly related to each other. Everyone is part of what the storyline needs to say, so big names are needed to keep you from being ostracized by your cognitive antibodies every time you need to take on a new character.

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Contagion quotes

  • 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.

  • Dr. Ellis Cheever: But right now, our best defense has been social distancing. No hand-shaking, staying home when you're sick washing your hands frequently.