By Calvin Tsang
Contagion, a movie wrought with grief and death from the first scene with surprise and amazement in the last scene. This movie had it all from infidelity wiping out an eighth of the planet’s population from a starving writer trying to spread the truth about this unknown epidemic and it’s mysterious origins. The stellar cast with Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and even Matt Damon put on an Oscar-winning performance. The different perspectives give light to what life would be in case something like this would indeed happen from the view of a father who has lost his wife, a epidemic specialist, and even a China man trying to save his village. With these different perspectives, it changes the story from a realistic biological thriller to indeed more so, as a drama about attempts to get a cure, and if the circumstances are ever met.
In ,”Contagion,” however, not all things are right in the land of film. The pacing of the movie as it skips from Day 2 of the infection to Day 21 of the infections are random and spontaneous along with how they portray the ending is very obvious with the emphasis being on the very. In the movie, there are also some slow parts that linger on and on however, there are also intense action sequences that put you right in the heart of the infection zones where it all started, in the end they balance out. One lingering misnomer that I have about this movie is the plot hole that they left at the end and didn’t tie up, it was just a loose end.
In the end, it was an amazing movie filled with drama,misadventure, adventure, and ultimately death. It brought out human nature in the face of certain death and showed perseverance of the human race. However, even through perseverance it also showed the negligence and anarchy that we hold and this is why I give it two thumbs up. This is a SEE IT.
