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Catching Up: Brief Thoughts on Soderbergh's "Contagion."

  • By Eric Kohn
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  • November 18, 2011 9:15 AM
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"Contagion" Warner Bros.
The end of the world is a fixation that has captured the imagination of countless filmmakers in several eras of the medium's history. Even Charlie Chaplin pondered the apocalypse in an unproduced screenplay co-written by film critic James Agee. While the zombie subgenre, pioneered by George Romero over 40 years ago with "Night of the Living Dead," combined the gloomy scenario with a terrific form of escapism, it led the scenario away from the scarier prospects of what a real threat to humankind might look like. ("Dr. Strangelove" did not become the paradigm.) Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion," which I finally watched this week, gets closer to depicting the real deal.
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