, a movie nine years ago, was mentioned again with the outbreak of the epidemic. Even on the hot search, it became a popular movie. why
? The reason is also very simple-because this movie is like a prophet, so similar to the present.
"Infectious Diseases"
, released in 2011, is a disaster-themed movie. But after it was released, it was defeated by Waterloo.
has not only been dismal at the box office, it has also been criticized by the media. The main criticisms of
focused on the text of the film: the multi-line narrative of
is too scattered, the story lacks drama and tension, and the plot design is too ideal...
To this day, the film has only 6.8 points on Douban .
However, the magical thing is-now that the epidemic is happening, when we look back on the movie, we will find that the movie seems to be an accurate prediction, and all aspects of the movie are being staged right now. How similar is the movie
to the current reality? Don't worry, let us start from the source of the epidemic. The story of
also began in winter, when a highly contagious new virus began to spread globally.
This virus can be transmitted through the air, and cases first appeared in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and other places.
Soon, people around the world continued to experience similar symptoms, first with fever, cough, then coma, cerebral hemorrhage, and eventually death.
On the second day of the spread of the virus, Beth, an executive of a major American company, had just returned from a business trip from Hong Kong.
While waiting at the airport, she felt a little uncomfortable and coughed constantly, but the customs officer thought it was a common cold, so she didn't take it seriously.
But just after returning home, Beth's condition suddenly worsened, showing symptoms of persistent high fever and unconsciousness.
Her husband Ma Si immediately rushed his wife to the hospital, but unexpectedly it was too late and the wife died. Before he could get out of the sad Thomas, he soon discovered that the young child was also infected by Beth and died of illness at home.
Faced with such a catastrophe, Thomas was completely in despair and helplessness.
At the same time, similar cases of infection have begun to appear all over the world, and the number is showing a rising trend.
It was the Thanksgiving holiday, when people moved on a large scale to visit relatives and friends, so the virus spread quickly.
, especially in some large cities with high population density and a relatively large flow of people, such as Hong Kong, Chicago, Tokyo, London and other places, spread the most rapidly.
With the end of the holidays, people will soon return to their respective cities after the holiday, and then the virus will become more difficult to control...
movie is Thanksgiving, and reality has caught up with the Spring Festival. Are all these scenes familiar?
As the epidemic spread, the hospital urgently conducted an autopsy on Beth's corpse and took samples of the virus.
At this time, it has reached the fifth day of virus infection. Experts from the medical team have discovered the possibility of human-to-human transmission of this new virus and want to make it public. The CDC experts have counted 47 suspected cases and 8 deaths, but the relevant departments are unwilling to announce the truth. Why didn't
announce the truth? For fear of causing panic in the whole society, the specific number of infections and deaths were concealed.
And the largest shopping season in the area will begin soon. This is related to the annual income of the state government. No one will release such dangerous information without authorization to make the public panic.
externally, they have always claimed to be just ordinary flu, and deliberately hide the more terrifying and serious real situation.
But in fact, the states of the United States have already called up their guards to set up roadblocks in preparation for "closing the city."
is also due to the opacity and non-disclosure of information, leading people to think that the epidemic is not serious, and go shopping as usual.
However, with the continuous escalation of the epidemic, the silence and concealment of the government and authoritative organizations have caused even greater social panic.
An Internet blogger, Allen, saw the opportunity and took the lead in publishing information about the spread of the virus on the Internet, which attracted the attention of a large number of netizens.
Later, he claimed on the Internet that he was also infected with this new virus, but he cured himself by blindly using the traditional Chinese medicine " forsythia".
As expected, his "self-healing drugs" quickly attracted a lot of attention.
Suddenly attracted people to go to pharmacies to buy Forsythia frantically. The pharmacies in the city were looted; even robberies began to occur.
However, in fact, the drug called "Yinqiao" has no specific effects at all, and has not undergone clinical trials for this disease.
The truth is just a collusion of interests between Allen and a drug dealer, using the epidemic to spread rumors to bring goods.
Seeing this, the absurdity in the movie seems to overlap with the current reality once again.
Look at the main ingredients of Shuanghuanglian A few days ago, Shuanghuanglian oral liquid was exaggeratedly promoted as a "drug with inhibitory effect" without clinical trials.
People who lost their minds instantly broke out a panic buying about Shuanghuanglian, and even Shuanghuang lotus seed paste mooncakes were not spared.
Compared with viruses, rumors spread faster.
And the following plot, there are more magical realities.
The virus spread rapidly in the population because it did not inform the public in time. On the twelfth day, the number of infected people exceeded one million, approaching tens of millions.
On the other hand, with various rumors flying in the sky, it caused collective panic among the people.
In order to prevent the further spread of the virus, the US government began an emergency blockade of Chicago, the city where the epidemic first spread.
As a result, schools are closed, city roads are blocked, people are asked to stay at home, and the whole city seems to be reduced to an empty city.
Seeing that the situation is so severe, some people in panic began to want to secretly escape from the city where they lived.
All the supermarkets in the city were robbed due to the shortage of supplies;
and the police were helpless because the whole city was in chaos, and the police were simply too busy.
Too many plots have been fulfilled.
Even the work from home during the epidemic period was predicted by the screenwriter.
The most critical is the hospital, because there are too many patients and there is an extreme shortage of relief supplies.
The US government decided to transport all severely infected people to the university gymnasium for centralized isolation.
Isn't this the "Xiaotangshan" hospital in reality? In addition to being quarantined, the infected people at
could not find any vaccine or specific medicine against the virus.
The sudden increase in the number of infections and deaths every day led to the collapse of medical institutions and eventually had to start excavators for mass burial.
As the epidemic continued to get out of control, it came to the 21st day of the spread of the virus, and something worse happened—the
virus mutated.
According to data from the CDC, in the future, 1/12 people will be infected globally, or about 580 million people.
On the other side, scientists have worked day and night to study and analyze the virus, and finally a vaccine is made.
Center for Disease Control Researcher Allie even took the risk to test the medicine, just to prove the vaccine is effective for the first time.
, she succeeded, but this only proves the possibility of defeating infectious diseases. If the
vaccine is to be fully promoted and used, it will take time to continue clinical trials, contact drug manufacturers and distribution channels.
Until 133 days after the virus spread, the vaccine was finally developed and put into production immediately.
But there is a new problem again-with so many patients worldwide, who should be vaccinated first and survive?
Therefore, the Housing Bureau adopted the fairest way: lottery.
takes the birthday as the number, and only shakes one number every day. The person in the shake can receive the vaccine, and the others continue to stay in isolation at home.
everyone has a deep understanding, the first lottery lottery is not to buy a house or a car, but to buy a mask.
But this seemingly fair method cannot convince everyone, because it means-
Someone may have to wait a year before they can get the vaccine.
Moreover, the process of vaccination is difficult to ensure that there are no tricks, and wealthy and powerful people can often get the vaccine as soon as possible.
Nothing is absolutely fair, including life and death.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the most thoughtful and scary part of the whole movie is that-the source of the virus in
-
actually comes from a kind of bat.
give everyone a key point-
yes, it's a bat again! ! !
The beginning of this epidemic is so familiar.
Originally, a bat carrying the virus would drop half of the bananas into the pigsty and be eaten by the piglets. After
, the piglet carrying the virus was slaughtered by a chef. The pig's blood was stained on the chef's hand, which contained the virus.
And this chef shook hands with Beth in the movie without washing his hands, and Beth was infected with the virus.
So, starting with a bat, the virus spread all over the world in less than a month. Although the
movie is a fictitious story, it has to be said that the plot of the movie seems to be a replica of the current epidemic.
According to the director, the inspiration for the film came from SARS in 2003. From the beginning of the movie,
has been constantly using close-ups, tea cups, coughs, documents, handshakes and other contact pictures, emphasizing the ubiquity of virus transmission. Although the virus is invisible to human eyes, this thrilling and depressive atmosphere spreads throughout the film, making the audience breathless. The director of
Soderbergh did not use dramatic methods, but used very precise details and deliberate control, and very restrained lens language to describe an apocalyptic scene very real.
So-
compared to ordinary commercial disaster movies, this movie is closer to a medical documentary.
In addition, as a disaster film, the film without exception places the focus of the story on human nature speculation.
The development of the plague is not just a problem of the virus itself, but also many institutional and human issues have been exposed. Civilization is so vulnerable to the virus.
Therefore, we can see such a real group portrait of human nature in the film.
Under the epidemic——
Some people are thinking about how to cause national disasters, some are keen to spread rumors and create panic, but there are others who go to the front without hesitation, saving the dead and healing the wounded, shining with the brilliance of human nature...
Compared with the virus itself, the human heart may be better. Terrible existence.
The public cannot resist epidemics by themselves, neither can doctors nor the government. Only the three working together can defeat it.
Now, all of us are staying at home in the fight against the epidemic, knowing that it is boring and holding back. However, it is not the time yet. Please continue to persevere until there is an inflection point.
As Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital, said:
Now I wantSay, each of you is a fighter, and those who stay at home and don't go out are also fighters. Our battle requires the cooperation of every soldier.
Indeed, now we are all fighting a war without gunpowder, everyone is a soldier. Staying at home and not running around and protecting yourself is the greatest contribution we ordinary people can make.
I believe that it will not be long before we will win, it will rain and the sky will be sunny, and the sun will shine. Come on! ! !
