CONTAGION(2011): Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? This in-your-face movie was made in 2011 with a slant on biological warfare, bio-terrorism and the like. This movie is an installment of earlier Hollywood movies with the same name released in 1987 and 2002 but they had limited box office success. This movie has a star-studded cast with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Kate Winslet-all of them make their presence felt. The ensemble cast also throws in some superlative performances and carries the Doomsday conspiracy story forward. In the context of the Coronavirus outbreak (MEV-1 in this movie) the movie is watchable for the uncanny similarity of suffering people and places as in real life right here right now.But the proceedings are very slow and torturous. At almost two hours the movie tries your patience. The movie however does not end in a tragedy. Set in Chicago and paced out over a period of five months, this movie despite its disaster affinity ends as a survivor story on a happy note ala vintage Hollywood. Watch it for the context and content but it would not alleviate the impending gloom that looms large in the present day.
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