: In order to become sick, he says, you have to first come into contact with a sick person or something that they touched. 27. Upon her return both to the US and to her husband Mitch (Matt Damon) she falls desperately ill, while Mitch remains mysteriously unaffected. Learning to sing the real lyrics of Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? (modern). Explain how. Studies show that there is no proof that forsythia works. | Written by Scott Z. Burns (who also wrote The Informant! I'll save you a seat on the bus. After MEV-1 becomes widespread, he markets and sells forsythia, an unapproved herbal remedy, as the "cure" for MEV-1 and blogs himself taking it after showing symptoms of MEV-1 infection telling viewers his survival will be a guarantee of forsythia's effectiveness. Contagion is both horrifying and a little comforting; the scientists do eventually find and release a vaccine, and even though a lot of people die, most of the worlds population manages to survive. The Biggest Questions We Have About Contagion - Looper It doesn't lack for gallows humour, but Contagion mostly doesn't let you off the hook with its insistent docudrama approach. After becoming infected with the novel virus, the pig is slaughtered and prepared to be served at a swanky casino in Macau, where American executive Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) is visiting while on business. But if you are in the mood for a really emotional virus flick, try Perfect Sense (made the same year as Contagion), a love story with Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. As Contagion is an ensemble film, there are lots of plot threads to juggle, and some get clearer resolutions than others. Emmanuel Macron receives court all-clear to raise retirement age. Print media is dying, Lorraine. Though both are allegedly from Sydney, their accents fall somewhere between Dick Van Dyke and a native New Yorker. It claimed to assist the aspiring Oscar winner in mastering the Australian accent, which the CD had handily broken down into roughly a dozen different Australian archetypes (including, I am very sorry to say to those in Aotearoa, a single New Zealand accent). : Scan this QR code to download the app now. : : That momentum is almost enough to distract from the Krumwiede sideshow and another puzzling story strand - that of Marion Cotillard's epidemiologist, an apparently lone WHO official sent to China to trace the origins of the virus. Alan Krumwiede (His lace-front wig, on the other hand, is the boot of all boots.) CONTAGION Teaches Us How Fake News Can Play a Role in The quarantine wasnt announced to the general public until several hours after the email was sent. He claimed the media was lying and there was no virus. That heavily implies he was aware the treatment he was profiting off throughout the pandemic was totally fake. For Contagion, this is true because the plot of the movie is inspired by the 2003 SARS outbreak, the epicentre of which was China, where bats in a wet market were believed to have spread the virus. Whether it was due to miscasting, bad directing or a general lack of acting skills from the actor involved, these performances are huge distractions in otherwise superb viewing experiences.