As coronavirus spreads fear and panic across the world, streaming services have been observing a spike of interest in the 2011 movie
Contagion. Starring Matt Demon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Lawrence Fishburne, the movie follows the outbreak of a deadly virus called MEV-1 and its disastrous impacts on society. Needless to say, in today’s context,
Contagion is not a comforting watch. In fact, if the whole Coronavirus situation is already making you anxious, you should probably avoid
Contagion. Because it will only make things worse.In fact, the slogan of the movie is “Nothing spreads like fear” – and that is basically the goal of the movie. To scare and to educate. Over eight years ago, I wrote the article
“Contagion”: How Disaster Movies “Educate” the Masses where I highlighted the main messages of this movie and the blueprint it lays it out for future epidemics….