Contagion Review

I watched the film “Contagion” around two months ago. Contagion is a 2011 medical thriller disaster film. Contagion's plot documents the spread of a virus transmitted by fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. This movie was inspired by various pandemics such as the 2003 SARS epidemic and the 2009 flu pandemic.

In the film's final moments, an extended flashback explains the virus' outbreak.

A man driving a bulldozer that works for Beth's company knocks down a palm tree where bats are nesting. The bats become disturbed and fly away. One of the bats is carrying a virus; it flies onto a banana plant and eats a chunk of the banana. The bat then roosts on a water supply pipe, over a pig pen.

The bat drops a chunk of the banana out of its mouth and into the pig pen, where a pig eats the banana, and demonstrates the chain of contagion with the bat's disease, creating a Bat-Pig hybrid.

The next day, a group of Chinese chefs collect piglets from the same pen and take them to a casino. One of the chefs butchers the diseased piglet and is shown preparing it for roasting. The chef is approached and called away from his preparations. He casually wipes his hands on his apron. It is revealed that he is called away to greet and shake hands with Beth Emhoff, creating the Bat-Pig-Human hybrid that makes her patient zero as the origin of the MEV-1 Virus.

The director chooses some place such as Hong Kong and Japan. These places are the high population density places. So the transmission of virus is very fast.

I think the high population is not the terrible thing. A city with high population density is the dangerous thing when there is a virus needs to multiplication.

References:
Contagion (film). (2012, December 23). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved December 23, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(film)