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Contagion (2011)
A film about how a new, unknown, and deadly disease sweeps the world. Sounds familiar, right?
The movie remained obscure for 9 years, but in 2020, everyone suddenly remembered it, and you probably heard about it too. And, in general, before the post-COVID world, it probably wasn't particularly interesting to watch. But being in that world, it became very interesting to see how the predictions would align with reality. And a lot of things did – masks, lockdowns, QR codes, and other things that I've already forgotten, but I remember paying attention to many details. Some things were only partially predicted – for example, there are anti-vaxxers in the film, but their number is very limited. The same goes for the quarantine – in the film, it's a serious quarantine where people don't go anywhere, neither to work nor to the store, and the government distributes food. But there are far more successful predictions. Someone will probably decide that Hollywood simply directed both the movie and the real epidemic, but the answer is simpler – epidemics have been studied for a long time, as have the methods of fighting them. For example, in the game Vampyr, there are similar posters asking people to wear masks and stay home, and it's about the Spanish flu epidemic at the beginning of the 20th century.
In addition to the successful predictions, the film is also notable for its soundtrack – it's good, catchy, and reminiscent of the atmosphere of the game Plague Inc., meaning it perfectly captures the mood. There's nothing else extraordinary about the film; it's worth watching solely for the things I've described.
A film about how a new, unknown, and deadly disease sweeps the world. Sounds familiar, right?
The movie remained obscure for 9 years, but in 2020, everyone suddenly remembered it, and you probably heard about it too. And, in general, before the post-COVID world, it probably wasn't particularly interesting to watch. But being in that world, it became very interesting to see how the predictions would align with reality. And a lot of things did – masks, lockdowns, QR codes, and other things that I've already forgotten, but I remember paying attention to many details. Some things were only partially predicted – for example, there are anti-vaxxers in the film, but their number is very limited. The same goes for the quarantine – in the film, it's a serious quarantine where people don't go anywhere, neither to work nor to the store, and the government distributes food. But there are far more successful predictions. Someone will probably decide that Hollywood simply directed both the movie and the real epidemic, but the answer is simpler – epidemics have been studied for a long time, as have the methods of fighting them. For example, in the game Vampyr, there are similar posters asking people to wear masks and stay home, and it's about the Spanish flu epidemic at the beginning of the 20th century.
In addition to the successful predictions, the film is also notable for its soundtrack – it's good, catchy, and reminiscent of the atmosphere of the game Plague Inc., meaning it perfectly captures the mood. There's nothing else extraordinary about the film; it's worth watching solely for the things I've described.
Where do we go?
Where do we end up when we save the world?
Where do we end up when we save the world?