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appalachiablue

(41,133 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 06:35 PM Mar 2020

"Contagion" Movie (2011)

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Trailer. If you haven't seen it, might want to hold off. Very well done film, pandemic thriller. - Contagion is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet.

The plot concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style, popularized in several of Soderbergh's films...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)



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dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. Somehow the deception by world governments and the
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 06:38 PM
Mar 2020

WHO is much worse here in the real world.
I am seeing the Forsythia thing replay itself, with Colloidal Silver.
There are several comparisons here.

mitch96

(13,904 posts)
12. Did you ever notice that in all these pandemic movies the government lies to the people?
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 08:03 PM
Mar 2020

No wonder all these conspiracy theory's pop up.
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