Where the HELL is the sun? My tan is fading. Well, today's rain officially started the pre-Oscar movie season for me. Mom and I went to Contagion, the new Steven Soderbergh film, and it's a real crowd pleaser. It is creepy good because it is so real. This shit could happen. And now I know that unless you are a paranoiac with a bomb shelter and a stash of food, you may get stuck in your own house, without gas, without water, etc., if an epidemic arises. But that will be the least of your worries. Looters, hedge funds, and crazy bloggers, a viable vaccine and kidnappings are all problems as well.
This movie is great cinema. It is tightly written and directed (think Ocean's 11 about a scary epidemic - so very little humor), with an amazing ensemble case in which none of them is the movie's "star". (Think Traffic.) It has mood enhancing music, top quality editing, a fantastic ending, it's very slick, but has no explosions or blood.
Definitely watch this one. You'll want to stock up on tuna fish, TP and water afterward, believe me.
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