A shrewd, unsensationalistic, non-visual effects-dependent global disaster melodrama, Contagion creates a credible picture of how the world might react (and, up to a point, has reacted) in the face of a rapidily spreading mystery disease for which no cure exists. Watch Contagion Movie Online
Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns create unease and simmering tension without going over the top into souped-up suspense or gross-out moments (with one possible exception), which will automatically lessen interest among the lowest-common-denominator crowd. But the fine cast, likely solid critical reaction and undeniable topicality position this as a robust B.O. performer for the early fall season. The Warner Bros. release world premiered Saturday night at the Venice Film Festival.
Spanning the planet but keeping his focus intimate, Soderbergh plausibly sets up a scenario in which everyday human contact—people touching themselves, others and ordinary objects—triggers an inter-continental plague that instantly transforms the way people relate to one another and throws governments and the relevant medical institutions into a panic. The immediate twin issues are how to combat the disease, whatever it is, and how to deal with a populace increasingly inflamed by rumors that, thanks to personal electronic communications, travel even faster than does the virus.
Despite such familiar devices as ticking-clock calendar postings--”Day 14,” “Day 131”--military checkposts, the president going underground and so on, the feeling here is far more realistic and science-based than artificially concocted. Notwithstanding the urgent struggles faced by the diverse group of characters, including those such as the regular Joe played by Matt Damon, the heart of the movie rests with the medical professionals played by Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle and Laurence Fishburne, individuals placed on the anvil of the crisis whose performance under pressure will likely tell the tale.
The first symptoms are ordinary enough—coughing, weakness, a bit of fever. But nothing can prevent it getting worse. For Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), just returned to Minneapolis after a business trip to Hong Kong, it takes only two days for her collapse, start twitching, foam at the mouth and die. Her son soon follows, leaving her husband Mitch (Damon) both bereft and desperate that nothing happen to his teenage stepdaughter.
Reports of “clusters” of such cases have filtered in from Tokyo, London and elsewhere, so that by the fifth day, the World Health Organization sends Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) to Asia to try to identify the source. Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet) of the U.S. Center for Disease Control sets up quarantine facilities in Minneapolis while Beth's tissues are analyzed for clues as to the nature of the malady, a must for a vaccine to be created. Watch Contagion Movie Online
Congenitally opposed to such medical prudence and official explanations for anything is Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law), a rogue English blogger based in San Francisco who seems privy to lots of hard information. When rebuffed by the establishment press, the rabid contrarian begins a one-man online crusade to expose an alleged conspiracy between governments and pharmaceutical companies to hide the truth and eventually produce a cure for maximum profitability, even as he claims to possess a homeopathic remedy.
Further skepticism of the health establishment is embodied by a genius Bay Area scientist (Elliott Gould) who quickly figures out the structure of the pathogen on his own; unfortunately, Gould, so engaging whenever he works with Soderbergh, disappears after this initially flurry. Cotillard also gets short-shrifted, as her character is sequestered by the plot for a long time. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns create unease and simmering tension without going over the top into souped-up suspense or gross-out moments (with one possible exception), which will automatically lessen interest among the lowest-common-denominator crowd. But the fine cast, likely solid critical reaction and undeniable topicality position this as a robust B.O. performer for the early fall season. The Warner Bros. release world premiered Saturday night at the Venice Film Festival.
Spanning the planet but keeping his focus intimate, Soderbergh plausibly sets up a scenario in which everyday human contact—people touching themselves, others and ordinary objects—triggers an inter-continental plague that instantly transforms the way people relate to one another and throws governments and the relevant medical institutions into a panic. The immediate twin issues are how to combat the disease, whatever it is, and how to deal with a populace increasingly inflamed by rumors that, thanks to personal electronic communications, travel even faster than does the virus.
Despite such familiar devices as ticking-clock calendar postings--”Day 14,” “Day 131”--military checkposts, the president going underground and so on, the feeling here is far more realistic and science-based than artificially concocted. Notwithstanding the urgent struggles faced by the diverse group of characters, including those such as the regular Joe played by Matt Damon, the heart of the movie rests with the medical professionals played by Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle and Laurence Fishburne, individuals placed on the anvil of the crisis whose performance under pressure will likely tell the tale.
The first symptoms are ordinary enough—coughing, weakness, a bit of fever. But nothing can prevent it getting worse. For Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), just returned to Minneapolis after a business trip to Hong Kong, it takes only two days for her collapse, start twitching, foam at the mouth and die. Her son soon follows, leaving her husband Mitch (Damon) both bereft and desperate that nothing happen to his teenage stepdaughter.
Reports of “clusters” of such cases have filtered in from Tokyo, London and elsewhere, so that by the fifth day, the World Health Organization sends Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) to Asia to try to identify the source. Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet) of the U.S. Center for Disease Control sets up quarantine facilities in Minneapolis while Beth's tissues are analyzed for clues as to the nature of the malady, a must for a vaccine to be created. Watch Contagion Movie Online
Congenitally opposed to such medical prudence and official explanations for anything is Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law), a rogue English blogger based in San Francisco who seems privy to lots of hard information. When rebuffed by the establishment press, the rabid contrarian begins a one-man online crusade to expose an alleged conspiracy between governments and pharmaceutical companies to hide the truth and eventually produce a cure for maximum profitability, even as he claims to possess a homeopathic remedy.
Further skepticism of the health establishment is embodied by a genius Bay Area scientist (Elliott Gould) who quickly figures out the structure of the pathogen on his own; unfortunately, Gould, so engaging whenever he works with Soderbergh, disappears after this initially flurry. Cotillard also gets short-shrifted, as her character is sequestered by the plot for a long time. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
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