Oh my God, I can only imagine what germs are all over this keyboard. I mean, I touched the bar before coming to work on the subway, and now I'm writing, and I rubbed my eyes a moment ago, and ... I think I feel a little 'tickling the back of the throat.
These are the thoughts you have after seeing the contagion. It is not. The good news is that you will see that rarest of things: a story told in a new way.
Steven Soderbergh called contagion as Irwin Allen film, and given the array of stars and the death toll that has certainly had a point. The best line of the trailer - "a person does not have to militarize the avian flu, birds do" - can mean that there is a factor of junk. It is not. (A line like that is just too good to pass up). What distinguishes the contagion is very strong, very anti-Hollywood philosophy: cut the bullsh * t and show what it would be if it really happened.
What we have here is one of the best "failure of society" films I've ever seen. If you are the type of person that is the opening credits montage of the most frightening aspects of the original Aube Romero's death, even though everything is lost in the transmission head Contrary to The Walking Dead and Y:. The last man, the event to promote the spread Revelation that is (sigh) a threat. Read very real flu by Gina Kolata - or better yet, no, because maybe you like to sleep at night.
We have seen the images of 9 / 11 attacks on the effective use of the decade after the war of the worlds is Cloverfield, but nothing I've seen has been described the extended sense of increased anxiety and fear in this way. Infection, for me anyway, is the story of what we were all worried would happen - the second attack on 9 / 12, which was followed by another 9 / 13, until all you have ever taken for granted our civilization is completely reversed.
People surf the waves of information for the calculation of the movement survive morally gray. Confusion of the fourth wall to reach the levels of the main actors fall in and out of the story, leaving the audience as restless as the characters. For the first time in a long time, and think to yourself: "I do not know what will happen in this film."
Soderbergh much recent work has a very specific look and feel. He improved his time in front of the HBO series K Street and resurfaced with bubbles and The Girlfriend Experience. It's an interesting rumor video, a lot of color saturation, sound design and elegant style pointillist about the publisher. I never really applied this form to one of his "movie star" movies (not all the way to go with The Informant, The Good German or Che, not to mention the oceans movies) and it is very gratifying to see a movie large scale like this.
The extent of contagion is what is so remarkable. It has a huge distribution and discussion with several floors, but it is never confusion. More unique, it is never conventional, ie. There is no cutting of the President, or humongous, extended sequences crowd. Do you like Children of Men in Battle: Los Angeles? Yes, I thought.
Maybe it's just because they tend to have recurrent nightmares about the end of the world (do not cry for me though, my night of frequent visits to the island of playful, plus size models made for her), but the contagion me realized that I lived. It is one of the best films of the year.
