Contagion: First review

contagionDennis Lim at the New York Times has a review of the upcoming virus thriller ‘Contagion’. According to script consultant (and my CU colleague) Ian Lipkin, he went through great efforts to make the movie realistic:

There isn’t anything in the laboratory part of the film that hasn’t either been done with a bona fide surrogate or assembled from something that was real.

I hope Ian is right. In science fiction movies liberties are always taken to make the story more compelling and scary. For me this is problematic because non-scientists often think what they see in such stories is real.

I’m sure we’ll have a rousing discussion here about the movie once it is released in September.

3 thoughts on “Contagion: First review”

  1. Lionel berthoux

    Let’s hope so. This director had a movie 10 years ago titled “Traffic” which was supposed to be an accurate description of drug-related social issues and, despite all the hype around the movie, ended up being a catalog of clichés.

  2. As the owner of the online discussion forum at Avianflutalk.com (started 6 years ago), I personally have high hopes for this movie.

    Best to all,
    Albert

  3. At least it will bring some interest among students to go to Graduate programs in infectious diseases. free marketing.

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