Compared with "Influenza", this is an underrated classic

Annalise 2022-03-16 09:01:02

Contagion: Infectious disease.

Contact: contact, contact.

As a species on earth, human beings are always in contact with the natural environment, and everyone is always in contact with others.

The film uses the spread of new viruses in humans as a story carrier, and outlines the good and evil of human nature.

Panic is a more terrifying contagion than the disease itself. In the face of crisis, human beings driven by primitive desire and instinct exposed extreme violence, selfishness, lies, ignorance, evil and other dark sides of human nature, which completely destroyed the human social order, but at the same time, people helped each other, fought bravely, and were kind The human brilliance of compassion is also revealed in disasters and crises. And whether it is good or evil, it is also contagious/spread.

In front of nature, human beings are always just insignificant existences. Our cognition of the world has never been complete, and nature has never stopped testing human beings. For nature, there is no difference between humans and monkeys. However, the difference between humans and monkeys is that we have great and brave scientists like Erin, who never stop in the face of the unknown. , dedicate yourself to a higher purpose.

At the end of the film, the order of human society is restored again, and the source of the infectious virus is traced back. Every link in this food chain is closely related. Therefore, what people need to think about is never how to live in harmony, but how to live in harmony with nature. Revere nature and life, because we are all in it, even if we have never met, we have never been out of touch.

This is the ideological connotation conveyed by "Infectious Diseases". And "Influenza" is just a big scene that is used in Korean disaster films. The atmosphere expresses the darkness of politics. The perspective and pattern are not as good as "Infectious Diseases", and the whole "Infectious Diseases" has no gorgeous and exaggerated methods. The details, the delicate performances of the excellent cast, explain the profound things in simple language, which can be called classics.

The shooting method of "Infectious Diseases" is from a third perspective, similar to a documentary, quietly and restrained peeling the onion of this story, the details are more metaphorical, profound and advanced. And "Influenza" relies on the shaping of scenes and atmosphere, does not pay attention to the rationality of the plot, and the details are too exaggerated, which is really artificial.

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Extended Reading
  • Allen 2022-03-22 09:01:19

    The plot is very strong. Before the popularization of the story is gradually developed to construct a condensable structure, the virus (the original motivation) must be attributed to the narrative motivation factor that can "play hooligans" as you like. Everyone, big, medium and small, belong to the kind of narrative. It’s dead, or the tools and background boards that have a sense of reality, and the disintegration type attribute is really not a documentary. The documentary sense is very prominent. Of course, the final collection is very urgent. The inner OS, motivation, cause and effect are all given concrete and normal. Look at this The strong craftsmanship gets angry. . .

  • Layla 2022-03-23 09:01:23

    After reading it, I removed all the tags of horror/action/suspense, and finally changed the plot. The story is too plain, the theme is not new, and I can see that the money has been spent a lot, and there are also a lot of big-name stars, but Jude Law's swollen horse lacking front teeth is too cheating! Go back to your Donny, right? Matt Demon is also fat and scary. Have you abandoned yourself since the failure of "Genius Ripley"? Kate has only half soy sauce, Samsung

Contagion quotes

  • Dr. Ellis Cheever: Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.

  • Dr. Ellis Cheever: When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?

    Dr. Erin Mears: [Hesitantly] Taco Bell