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Contagion (2011, dir. Steve Soderbergh): Soderbergh’s Traffic meets global pandemics of a virus, fear and bureaucracy

imagePlays as an extended episode of the excellent Canadian TV show ReGenesis (watch it on Hulu Plus if you’re a fan of this film or Fringe). Soderbergh applies the multi-layered documentary-like formula of Academy Award-winning Traffic (2000) to a global virus pandemic, exploring also the societal implications – the contagion of fear, and morass of bureaucracy.

 

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Posted by on September 24, 2011 in Film Reviews

 

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