Amid fears stocked by the coronavirus, the 2011 film Contagion about a pandemic with potentially strange similarities to recent events has seen it top charts as people use fiction as a means to process reality. Many people across the globe rattled by the new virus have turned to the movies to make sense of what is going on. Contagion relates most directly with the current danger, beginning as it does with a woman who returns to Minnesota with a strange illness after a trip to Hong Kong. Contagion is both horrifying and a little comforting as the scientists do eventually find and release a vaccine, and even though a lot of people die, most of the world’s population manages to survive. But watching Contagion in 2020, what’s most striking about the movie is not really the central virus itself, though seeing the rising coronavirus fatality count has been heartbreaking and WHO is yet to find patient zero.

Source: Daily Nation March 15, 2020 13:07 UTC