- published: 14 Jul 2011
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Contagion is a 2011 medical thriller disaster film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film has an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet. The film 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. Contagion makes use of a "hyperlink narrative" style popularized in several of Soderbergh's other films to follow several interacting plot lines.
The film had a production budget of $60 million, and filming took place in countries around the world. It premiered on September 3, 2011, at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was publicly released to critical acclaim on September 9, 2011, in the United States, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, and four other territories. Contagion grossed an estimated $135 million worldwide. A number of scientists and science writers have praised the accurate depiction of medical and scientific practices in the film, which received cooperation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Just the way
That black turns to light
Just the way
That day turns to night
Just the way
That wrong is right
Just the way
The knife takes the life
Turn away
Don't look at me
Turn away
Don't follow me
Just the way
That love turns to rage
Just the way
That life is a cage
Just the way
You look at me
Just the way
You come to me
Time to rest among my friends
It's time to leave
To let it end
Time to take away the flesh
Let in the waves
Let in the rest
Turn away
Don't look at me
Turn away
Don't follow me
Time to walk away my friend
Meet me when you ascend
Just the way you came to me
New flesh inside of me