This weekend I saw the thriller Contagion. Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart. This is a movie of the fear of dying and death. It was so accurately portrayed to what science today would do if an outbreak would happen. What was so amazing about this film was how fast and quickly the disease spread and the panic in people to try to survive. This movie will make you think about our class.
I saw this movie!! Not only did I enjoy it but for the next couple of weeks I was constantly washing my hands and trying not to touch my face or anything else. This really does put death and dying in extreme perspective. You literally are going through Ross's Stages of Death at an extreme rapid rate. People were no longer living their lives as if death was inevitable. They would act as if the disease was the only thing that caused death and they would run and hide putting the world into extreme panic and turmoil. Have an epidemic or pandemic is a totally new look at death and fear.
ReplyDeleteI was also a little paranoid after watching this movie...the whole time I was at the theaters I wanted to have a hazmat suit on, and was constantly refraining from touching my face with my hands! A pandemic/epidemic like this would constantly make one live in fear, and make one escape on the beauty that is life (e.g when the daughter cannot see her boyfriend until he gets the "un-infected" tag). I think that epidemics/plagues are interesting to examine for on one hand you have the will to live (survive) and on the other hand you are restraining and restricting your life in order to achieve your main ends. So in all pandemics and plagues with their diverse predicaments, make for interesting paradoxes.
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