Movie Review: Contagion

           I can’t say that I’d ever really want to watch Stephen Soderberg’s first post-retirement film, Contagion, ever again. Yeah, it stars everybody. Yeah, it’s good in that it's well told, entertaining/anxiety inducing. Yeah, it can be viewed as a metaphor/commentary on the current financial crisis and one of its primary motors (fear and its tendency to spread very, very quickly, especially in light of how connected all of us are, today). But the effect of whole thing was to make me just want to throw up my hands in a feeling of near-total hopelessness/powerlessness. After I’ve washed them.


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