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Contagion
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns

“Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.” --- (C) Warner Bros.
I.The Cast
Kate Winslet
As Dr. Erin Mears
Josie Ho
As Li Fai's Sister
Marion Cotillard
As Dr. Leonora Orantes

Sanaa Lathan
As Aubrey Cheever
Jennifer Ehle
As Dr. Ally Hextall
Matt Damon, as Mitch Emhoff

Anna Jacoby-Heron
As Jory Emhoff
Demetri Martin
As Dr. David Eisenberg
Elliott Gould
As Dr. Ian Sussman
Laurence Fishburne
As Dr. Ellis Cheever

Bryan Cranston
As RADM Lyle Haggerty
John Hawkes
As Roger
Chin Han
As Sun Feng
Jude Law
As Alan Krumwiede

Gwyneth Paltrow
As Beth Emhoff

The Theme of The Movie
The film entitled “Contagion” started with the story of Beth Emhoff who dies from an idiopathic type of disease soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong. Unluckily her son also dies on the same day she was passed away, and the good thing is her husband seems immune from the said virus. From that day on, Doctors from the U.S. Centers for disease Control, started to analyze the extent of this infection, they identify first the type of virus and find a cure and solution to this. By that, it begins the spread of the deadly infection which spread to millions of people worldwide, that causes societal breakdown as people being threaten on this alarming situation.
II. Summary The story started with Beth Emhoff which visited Hong Kong for her business trip. On her trip she dropped by in Chicago and net with her ex-boyfriend. As she go home to Minneapolis she already had a flu. Beth’s condition got worst and eventually she died. On that day also, her son Clark got sick and passed away also suspected that the

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