Cover News Reporter Yang Fan
The pneumonia epidemic caused by the new coronavirus has attracted global attention, and many people have begun to pay more attention to epidemic infectious diseases. A movie called "Contagion" (Contagion) has recently appeared on iTunes. The tenth place on the rental list, and other top ten places include "Joker" at No. 1, "Parasite" at No. 4 and "Dancing Girl Thief" at No. 8. The score of "Infectious Diseases" on Douban has also increased from 6.4 to 6.6 due to the "help" of domestic netizens in recent days.
The film was released in 2011 and directed by Steven Soderbergh (Steven Soderbergh). The plot revolves around a woman returning to her home in Minnesota from a business trip in Hong Kong. Although she shows fatigue and cold-like symptoms, she thinks it is nothing more than jet lag. However, in the next 24 hours, she finally passed away and a deadly virus also swept across the world.
The main line of "Infectious Diseases" is clear, the story is clear, the color control is calm, the lens language is skillful, and it gives the audience a lot of imagination. But this is not the best part. Soderbergh used very precise details and deliberate control, very restrained lens language, to describe an apocalyptic scene very real. Human nature is both fragile and very real. There is no lone hero or government conspiracy theory that American movies have always had. Everyone is an ordinary person, which constitutes a world that is not dramatic, but also full of drama, which is close to the real world. The film uses the timeline as the main line, and the whole film is like a diary, flat and straightforward, scattered but not messy. The performances of several leading actors are very convergent, which fits well with the film's repressive theme.
This movie does not feel like the twists and turns in our traditional sense. The whole story and the main line are very simple: find the plague, take measures, find a method and finally give out the vaccine, the plot will probably make a lot of rushes so much The big-name celebrities are disappointed, but it truly reflects the government's response, departmental measures, social phenomena and people's struggles throughout the process. Every one of them feels so real. The so-called qualities and civilization are only the appearance of people walking in a stable and stable society. When the unknown threats occupy people's hearts, the original sin caused by panic will undoubtedly be revealed. Perhaps the other ending of the film is that no vaccine has been found, but it is not the plague that destroys humanity, but humanity itself.
The actors who participated in the film include Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Ge Gwyneth Paltrow, etc.
In addition, the 1995 film "Outbreak" with the same genre also rose to 86th on the rental list.
