Contagion

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Contagion is a 2011 killer virus thriller like Outbreak and others that present the world on the brink of utter disaster once a hereto unknown illness sweeps across unprepared populations, causing a breakdown of society and millions dead while the cure is sought. Lawrence Fishburne and Marion Cotillard play dedicated doctors racing for the cure, Matt Damon as a father who suffers tragedy during the crisis, Jude Law as a conspiracy blogger who challenges the efforts to contain the spread of the bug and the timing of the crisis, Gwyneth Paltrow as one of the very first victims of the highly-infectious disease, and Kate Winslet as another doctor who goes out on the field to track, document and give ongoing assessment of epidemics. Effective and fairly plausible story with some disturbing portrayals of government mishandling, greed, widespread death and chaos.

Erik M.

Continuity mistake: When a guy brings flowers to mourn for Mitch's wife, he is in the kitchen, stands up and runs to the door. When the angle changes, a frame later, he repeats all the previous movements.

Sacha

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Dr. Ellis Cheever: What have you eaten? I mean something that didn't come from a vending machine.
Dr. Erin Mears: Taco Bell!

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Trivia: As SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, causing the disease labelled COVID-19, interest in this movie spiked, putting it in the most-rented movie charts in several countries.

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Question: After Alan Krumweide starts spreading misinformation about Forsythia curing MEV-1, we see a scene in a pharmacy being flooded with desperate customers. But if Forsythia is a homeopathic drug, then why is it being sold in pharmacies in the first place? As the characters say later on, it takes months just to get a drug approved, let alone sold.

Answer: Many pharmacies in the US sell homeopathic supplements.

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