Imagine yourself in a world wide pandemic. No, wait....you've just been in one!
For this summer, I've decided to watch a few older disaster films. I chose Contagion 2011 to watch yesterday. This film is loaded with stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Lawerence Fishbourne, Marion Cotillard and Bryan Cranston.
One of the reviewers of Contagion 2011 wrote, If something like this did ever happen, I shutter to contemplate the societal ramifications.
My reaction to the movie was far different from the first time I saw it. Who would have guessed that a mire 8 years later, 2019, we would experience COVID, a virus that began in China and eventually killed a million people in the United States alone.
Contagion 2011 was a tale about an untreatable super virus rapidly spreading across the world.
Another reviewer wrote after watching the film, I found myself wanting to bathe in a gallon of hand sanitizer. In real life, I felt like I was drowning myself in a bucket of hand sanitizer. Every day.
It's doubtful anyone took the movie seriously. After all, Gwyneth Paltrow coughed in Hong Kong, headed home to Minneapolis, but with a five hour layover in Chicago to meet an old boyfriend. And a few weeks later people were dropping like flies. That's just silly, right?
Lawrence Fishbourne plays the Dr. Fauci role, only nine years before Dr Fauci played it in real life.
There are many heroes in this film and a few troublemakers. Fewer than we had in real life. And there were no deniers. What was happening was too real to be denied.
I saw this film on YouTube for free.
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