#Contagion (2011)
Eerily prescient, terrifying look…at the state of theatrical mid-budget adult dramas 🤣
I keed, I keed! No, of course it's a terrifyingly prescient look at the (apparently utterly predictable😮?!) pandemic situation we find ourselves in. I mean, my goodness, how many of those lingering surface shots do we need before we change our disgusting habits?!
Man, remember that time in Welham's when I was No. 6 to get chickenpox, what fun that was, when the hospital eventually filled up with more like us, and then we were discharged, only to find that the school had become so overrun with CP cases that they converted the audi (which used to be NG, i.e. New Ground, right? until NG got shifted upstairs to combine with NU, New Upper, except NU kinda disappeared one day and we were left with NG…but upstairs🤷♀️?!) into a makeshift hospital, and the first wave kids (hey, it was the 80s after all🤓!) would look on in jealousy as we still had to go to class and PT and the rest, while the audi kids looked like they were having the time of their lives, and then suddenly, just like that, the school shut down and sent us *all* home early, not checking if the kids were infectious or not? Fun times…with some decidedly un-fun national events that filtered down to us in quarantine…but that's an insane FBF story for another day😳😬!
Always, yeah, I still remember when the trailer came out(almost 10 years ago😱?!?!) and as soon as they showed the army hospital in the indoor stadium, I immediately flashed back to those fun times.
Seriously, though, how about a bunch of in-retrospect #Oscars (a retrospective #Oscar?!) to screenwriter Burns, who "breaks" all the screenwriting rules(umm, does the inciting incident happen like 2 seconds in when "Day 2" flashes on screen - I'll have to ask all my screenwriting friends next time I see them) and somehow still manages to craft a compelling, engaging, human-level disaster film; to editor Mirrione who builds tension in that terse just-the-facts-ma'am style that I love so much(man, so many jarring hard cuts…brilliant!), and, of course, the man himself, the underrated linchpin in the great Soderbergh's great filmography: composer Martinez.
And, of course, that cast: Winslet(where's she been recently?!), Fishburne(such a welcome presence in these sorts of things), Damon, Paltrow, Cotillard, Law(visibly happy to be unburdened by that 6-movies-in-6-months Next Big Thing pressure like his buddy Farrell), and Ehle who kinda, sorta, steals the whole thing…plus, many, many, many more!
Basically, watch this movie again, what else are you gonna do?!?!?!
"We have a novel virus with a high mortality rate and no known vaccine…" famous last words, eh?!
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#ScottZBurns #CliffMartinez #StevenSoderbergh #StephenMirrione
#KateWinslet #LaurenceFishburne #MattDamon #JudeLaw #JenniferEhle #MarionCotillard #GwynethPaltrow #BryanCranston
#JohnHawkes #ElliottGould #SanaaLathan … and many, many, many, many more!
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