Contagion/传染病

This movie is much like a documentary. I, as a Chinese well knowing the cooking condition of Chinese food, did not feel that I need to wash my hands after watching the movie (its ad). Since the natural environment being destructed and the globalization deepening, the viruses' mutate and spread much more quickly, like SARS and H1N1. The movie is about the reactions of different people, from the public's desperate to a small family's grief. Of course, there are bureaucracy and conspirators.

The flashback structure of the movie is alarming: the movie does not disclose the origin of the virus until the end, which outline this tragic "human being boomerang" (the Chinese cooking way and the health condition of Chinese restaurants seem to have been always criticized by the West).

本片极像一部纪录片，当然对我来说，作为一个熟知中餐烹饪情况的华人，还没到“看了之后就想去洗手（电影的广告语）”的程度。随着人对自然环境的破坏加剧和全球化程度的加深，病毒变异和传播的速度大大加快，非典和甲流的传播就是前车之鉴。本片反映的就是形形色色的角色在传染病危机中的应对，大到民众的恐慌，小到普通家庭的悲痛，当然，也少不了官僚主义和阴谋家。

影片的倒叙结构很有警示意味：直到影片的结尾，才披露出病毒的来历，加剧了“人类自食其果”的悲剧性（中餐的烹饪方式和卫生状况似乎一直被西方所诟病）。

Performance impression:
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet