- published: 14 Jul 2011
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Contagion is a 2011 American science fiction medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle. The plot of Contagion 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. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style, popularized in several of Soderbergh's films.
Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns had collaborated on The Informant! (2009). Following that film's release, Burns brought up the idea of producing a medical thriller film depicting the rapid spread of a virus, which was inspired by various pandemics such as the 2003 SARS epidemic and the 2009 flu pandemic. To devise an accurate perception of a pandemic event, Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well as noted medical experts such as W. Ian Lipkin and Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant. Principal photography started in Hong Kong in September 2010, and continued in Chicago, Atlanta, London, Geneva, and San Francisco until February 2011.
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