Contagion (film)

Contagion
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Produced by	Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher Gregory Jacobs
Written by	Scott Z. Burns
Starring	Marion Cotillard Matt Damon Laurence Fishburne Jude Law Gwyneth Paltrow Kate Winslet
Music by	Cliff Martinez
Cinematography	Stephen Soderbergh (as Peter Andrews)
Editing by	Stephen Mirrione
Studio	Warner Bros. Pictures Participant Media Imagenation Abu Dhabi Double Feature Films
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	September 9, 2011 (2011-09-09)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Box office	$134,978,906[1]

Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film has an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Bryan Cranston.^[2] Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal indirect contact transmission virus (fomite transmission) that kills within days.^[3] As the fast-moving pandemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than does the virus itself. As the virus spreads around the world, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

The film had a production budget of $60 million, and filming took place in countries around the world. It premiered on September 3, 2011, at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was publicly released on September 9, 2011, in the United States, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, and four other territories.

Plot synopsis

The film follows several interacting plotlines, with no single protagonist, over the course of several weeks from the initial outbreak and attempts to contain it, to panic and decay of social order, and, finally, to the introduction of a vaccine.

Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns from a business trip to Hong Kong, after briefly stopping in Chicago to cheat on her husband with an old flame. At first she appears to have contracted a common cold during her trip. However, her condition worsens and two days later she collapses with severe seizures in her Minneapolis home; her son, Clark, also begins to show cold symptoms. Her husband, Mitch, (Matt Damon) rushes her to the hospital, but she simply has more seizures there and dies from an unknown type of meningoencephalitis. Mitch returns home and finds that his stepson, Clark, has also died from the unknown infection. Mitch is put in isolation but turns out to be immune to the disease. He and his daughter attempt to flee the city, but a military quarantine has been imposed, and they are forced to return to their home to face decaying social order and rampant looting of stores and homes. Mitch struggles to balance his daughter's frustration with quarantine with his desire to protect her, while trying to come to terms with his own loss.

In Atlanta, representatives from the Department of Homeland Security meet with Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and express fears that the disease is a bioweapon intended to cause terror over the Thanksgiving weekend. Cheever sends Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, to Minneapolis to begin the investigation. Dr. Mears has to negotiate with local bureaucrats reluctant to commit resources and becomes infected with the disease after being in contact with contaminated fomites while staying at her hotel. The Minnesota National Guard arrives to quarantine the city, and a badly deteriorating Dr. Mears is moved to the field medical station she helped set up, where she later dies.

Investigations into cures via treatment protocols or vaccines initially prove fruitless as scientists cannot find a culture to grow the new virus, which has been named the Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1). Professor Ian Sussman (Elliott Gould) violates orders from a CDC scientist, Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle), to destroy his samples and identifies a line of bat cells that will support research of a vaccine. At the CDC, Dr. Hextall uses this breakthrough to begin to characterize the properties of the virus, which turns out to have a mix of genetic material from bat and pig viruses and appears to spread via fomites with a basic reproduction number of two.

A conspiratorially minded freelance internet journalist, Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law), posts the first video blogs about the disease, and in one of them apparently appears sick and later claims that he recovered using a homeopathic cure called forsythia. Panicked people attempting to obtain forsythia overwhelm pharmacies and also accelerate the contagion as infected and healthy people congregate. Krumwiede leaps to national attention and, during a television interview, accuses Dr. Cheever from CDC of informing friends and family to leave Chicago before a quarantine is imposed. It is later revealed Krumwiede was never sick with the unknown virus but was attempting to boost demand on behalf of investors in the companies producing and distributing the homeopathic treatment. He is taken by the police accused of conspiracy and fraud, but is soon released after his 12 million blog readers collect and pay his bail. Krumwiede is last seen returning to his internet journalism, interviewing the people attending the MEV-1 vaccination lines and questioning the safety of the rushed immunotherapy treatment and its yet unseen secondary and adverse effects.

Dr. Hextall identifies a potential vaccine, using an attenuated (live) virus. Because of the difficulties of human subjects testing, she follows the precedent of other vaccine researchers and inoculates herself first. Hextall visits her gravely ill father in the hospital to expose herself to the virus and test the vaccine. Production of the vaccine is rapidly ramped up, and the CDC awards vaccinations via a random lottery based on birth dates for one full year until every survivor is vaccinated. Dr. Cheever, remorseful about the deaths that his delayed action indirectly caused, gave his fast-tracked MEV-1 vaccination to the son of a janitor (John Hawkes) he works with at the disease center.

Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) is a World Health Organization epidemiologist who travelled to Hong Kong to find out where the sickness originated. While there, she identifies Emhoff as patient zero. Epidemiologist Sun Feng (Chin Han) kidnaps Orantes to use her as leverage to obtain the first MEV-1 vaccines for his village. After the vaccines arrive, Feng exchanges Orantes for the vaccines, which turn out to be placebos. Orantes rushes away when she is informed of this.

The film concludes by showing how the virus originated. Emhoff's mining corporation is clearing the jungle, and a bulldozer knocks over a palm tree in which infected bats were nesting. They fly out and one bat, the vector, lands on a banana plant, eating a chunk of banana. Not having its tree to return to, the bat flies to a nearby hog building, where it drops the banana into a pig sty, where a pig eats it and acquires the bat virus. The pig is then sold and slaughtered and is shown being prepared by a chef in the Macau casino Beth Emhoff visited. The chef smears the pig's blood on his apron but does not wash his hands before shaking Beth's, thereby infecting her with the mutating pig and bat viruses and creating a new human variant, the MEV-1 strain.

Cast

• Marion Cotillard as Dr. Leonora Orantes
• Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff
• Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Ellis Cheever
• Jude Law as Alan Krumwiede
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff
• Anna-Jacoby Heron as Jory Emhoff
• Kate Winslet as Dr. Erin Mears
• Jennifer Ehle as Dr. Ally Hextall
• Enrico Colantoni as Dennis French
• Bryan Cranston as RADM Lyle Haggerty, PHSCC
• Griffin Kane as Clark Morrow
• Sanaa Lathan as Aubrey Cheever
• Demetri Martin as Dr. David Eisenberg
• Elliott Gould as Dr. Ian Sussman
• Chin Han as Sun Feng
• John Hawkes as Roger
• Amr Waked as Rafik
• Daria Strokous as Irina
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta as himself
• Chui-Tien-you as Li Fai
• Josephine Ho Chiu-Yi as Li Fai's sister
• Armin Rohde as Daimian Leopold

Themes

Soderbergh was motivated to make an "ultra-realistic" film about the public health and scientific response to a pandemic.^[4] The movie touches on a variety of themes, including the factors which drive mass panic and loss of social order, the scientific process for characterizing and containing a novel pathogen, balancing personal motives against professional responsibilities and rules in the face of an existential threat, the limitations and consequences of public health responses, and the pervasiveness of interpersonal connections which can serve as vectors to spread disease.^[5] Soderbergh acknowledged the salience of these post-apocalyptic themes is heightened by reactions to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina.^[5] The movie was intended to realistically convey the "intense" and "unnerving" social and scientific reactions to a pandemic.^[6]

The film presents examples of crowd psychology and collective behavior which can lead to mass hysteria and the loss of social order. The bafflement, outrage, and helplessness associated with the lack of information, combined with new media such as blogs, allows conspiracy theorists like Krumwiede to spread disinformation and fear, which become dangerous contagions in of themselves.^[5][7][8] Dr. Cheever must balance the need for full disclosure but avoid a panic and allow the time to characterize and respond to an unknown virus.^[9] The movie indirectly critiques the greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy of isolated acts in contemporary culture and the unintended consequences they can have in the context of a pandemic.^[10] For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends "social distancing" by forcibly isolating the healthy to limit the spread of the disease, which stands in stark opposition to contemporary demands for "social networking".^[10] Responding to the pandemic presents a paradox, as the contagiousness and lethality of the virus instils deep distrust of others but surviving and limiting the spread of the disease also requires individuals to work together.^[11]

Against this existential threat and fraying social order, the film also explores how individual characters bend or break existing rules for both selfish and selfless reasons.^[12] Dr. Hextall violates protocols by testing a potential vaccine on herself, Dr. Sussman continues experiments on a cell line despite orders to destroy his samples, Dr. Cheever notifies his wife to leave the city before a public quarantine is imposed, Sun Feng kidnaps Dr. Orantes to secure vaccine supplies for his village, Dr. Mears continues her containment work despite contracting the virus, and Krumwiede is paid to use his blog to peddle snake oil cures so as to drive demand and profit for pharmaceutical investors.

Soderbergh repeatedly uses the cinemographic style of lingering and focusing on the items and objects which are touched by the infected and become vectors (fomites) to infect other people.^[13] These objects link characters together and reinforce the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style which Soderbergh developed in Traffic (2002) and Syriana (2005), which he produced.^[14][11]

The movie also highlights examples of political cronyism (a plane to evacuate Dr. Mears from Minneapolis is instead diverted to evacuate a Congressman), platitudes and rigid thinking (public health officials consider delaying the closing of shopping malls until after the Thanksgiving shopping season), federal responders trying to navigate fifty separate state-level public health policies, and the heroism of Federal bureaucrats.^[5][8] Soderbergh does not use type-cast pharmaceutical executives or politicians as villains,^[15] but instead portrays bloggers such as Krumwiede in a negative light.^[8] Social media plays a role in Krumwiede's accusations against Dr. Cheever and in Emhoff's daughter's attempts to carry on a relationship with a boyfriend through text messaging.^[11] Other responses in the movie, such as Emhoff's appropriating a shotgun from a friend's abandoned house to protect his home from looters, imposition of federal quarantines and curfews, the allocation of vaccines by lottery, inadequate federal preparation and responses, and use of bar-coded wristbands to identify the inoculated highlight the complex tensions between freedom and order in responding to a pandemic.^[9] Soderbergh uses Emhoff to illustrate the micro-effects of macro-level decisions.^[16]

Production

Contagion is directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns. The project was announced in February 2010 with the news that Matt Damon and Jude Law were cast in Contagion in their first collaboration since The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999.^[17] They were later joined by the other star of that movie Gwyneth Paltrow. Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard joined the cast later in the month.^[18]

Soderbergh received cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and also worked with a group of scientific advisers for the film. With a production budget of $60 million,^[19] filming began on September 25, 2010 and was initially scheduled to last until January 11, 2011. Filming locations included Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dubai, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia, and Malaysia.^[20] In Hong Kong, filming took place at the Hong Kong International Airport.^[21] By February of 2011, Contagion was being filmed in San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and other locations.^[22] Soderbergh filmed Contagion using Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED MX digital camera, which has a 4K image resolution.^[23]

Crew

• Steven Soderbergh – director
• Scott Z. Burns – screenplay
• Michael Shamberg – producer
• Stacey Sher – producer
• Gregory Jacobs – producer
• Cliff Martinez – music
• Stephen Mirrione – editor
• Howard Cummings – production design
• Abdellah Baadil – art direction
• Simon Dobbin – art direction
• David Lazan – art direction
• Cindy Carr – set decoration
• Louise Frogley – costume design

Release

Contagion had its world première on September 3, 2011 at the 68th Venice Film Festival.^[24] On the weekend of September 2, the studio held advance screenings in 550 theaters around the United States. The film was publicly released on September 9, 2011 in the United States, Canada, Italy, and five other territories.^[25] It was originally scheduled to be released on October 21, 2011.^[26]

Though the film had a production budget of $60 million, The New York Times reported, "[Box office] success means getting the audience to worry a little more at an already worrisome time." While the film is not being explicitly marketed as a horror film, it attracted the attention of horror fans. While Warner Bros. included a "scare factor" in its marketing with taglines such as "Don't touch anyone", one of its backers Participant Media launched a social action campaign with instructions on how to deal with a pandemic, such as stockpiling bottled water. It also advertised "virus hunters" to viewers.^[19]

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Contagion was released in 3,222 theaters,^[27] which include 254 IMAX screenings. Before its release, box office analysts predicted that the film would gross between $20 million and $25 million. Over the opening weekend, it grossed an estimated $22.4 million and ranked first at the box office, ending The Help's three-week streak. Contagion grossed $2.3 million from its IMAX screenings.^[28] According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a "B-" grade. More than 80% of the filmgoers were over 25 years old.^[29] According to Warner Bros., audiences were "evenly split" between genders.^[30]

The film was released in Italy, Hong Kong, and four other territories in the same opening weekend as the United States and Canada, and in the six territories, the film grossed $2.1 million over the weekend. It had an underwhelming opening of $705,000 in Italy and had a strong opening of $392,000 in Hong Kong.^[28] Contagion expanded to South Korea on September 22, 2011, about to expand to the rest of Europe in October 2011.^[31] It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 21, 2011.^[32] The UK premiere was at the Cambridge Film Festival, on 25th September 2011, where Contagion was the "Surprise Film".

As of October 10, Contagion has grossed an estimated $74.1 million in the United States and Canada and $36 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $110.1 million.^[33]

Critical reception

Contagion has received strongly positive reviews from critics who saw the film at its world première at the Venice Film Festival,^[34] and has since received critical acclaim. According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of critics gave the film a positive review, with an average critical score of 7.1/10, based on 214 professional reviews. The site's consensus stated, "Tense, tightly plotted, and bolstered by a stellar cast, Contagion is an exceptionally smart—and scary—disaster movie."^[35] Parmita Borah in her review wrote, "All of the characters have been treated with balanced empathy and make for the drama that a story like this requires to make it human."^[36] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 based on mainstream critical reviews, the film received an average score of 70 based on 38 reviews.^[37] Kate Winslet is the most critically acclaimed actor among the group, with reviews citing her as the antidote of the film.

Scientific accuracy

Soderbergh and Burns have been praised by Ferris Jabr in the New Scientist for practicing "in effect very successful science communication." Jabr cites story elements such as "the fact that before researchers can study a virus, they need to figure out how to grow it in cell cultures in the lab, without the virus destroying all the cells" as examples of accurate depictions of science.^[38]

Carl Zimmer, a science writer, praised the film, stating, "It shows how reconstructing the course of an outbreak can provide crucial clues, such as how many people an infected person can give a virus to, how many of them get sick, and how many of them die." He also describes a conversation with the film's scientific consultant, W. Ian Lipkin, in which Lipkin defended the rapid generation of a vaccine in the film. Zimmer writes that "Lipkin and his colleagues are now capable of figuring out how to trigger immune reactions to exotic viruses from animals in a matter of weeks, not months. And once they've created a vaccine, they don't have to use Eisenhower-era technology to manufacture it in bulk."^[39]

Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccination expert, praised the depiction of science in the film, writing "typically when movies take on science, they tend to sacrifice the science in favor of drama. That wasn't true here." He cites the film's usage of concepts like R₀ and fomites, as well as the fictional strain's origins, as examples of science well illustrated in the film.^[40]

See also

film portal

• The Death of Grass

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External links

• Official website
• Contagion at the Internet Movie Database