Contagion (Contagion)
Directed by: Steven SoderberghCast list: Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Chin han
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Genres: Science Fiction / Drama / Thriller /
Runtime: 106 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original English version subtitled in Spanish
Soon after a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff feels ill but she believes that the problem is jet lag. She travels back home to Minneapolis and spreads the virus to her son Clark and her husband Mitch. When Beth and Clark die, Mitch goes in quarantine where the doctors realize that he is immune to the mysterious virus. Thus begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and at the World Health Organization several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic.
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Subjects: English language / Natural Science / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Biology and Geology / Computer. Internet. New technologies / Contemporary world / Audiovisual culture. Cinema. Television. Photography /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / medicine, health / human relations, psychology, sociology / journalism, mass media, advertising / death and grief /
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