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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, March 9, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Nervous waiting game Contagion will scare you into soap and water. It makes that precaution seem as urgent as the inevitable moment in a horror film when viewers want to yell at the screen, “Get out of the house...now!” By Julie Hinds fter watching Contagion, you won’t need a public health offi cial to tell you to wash your “Our best defence has hands often. been social distancing, no The 2011 movie will scare you into soap and water. It makes that precaution seem as handshaking, staying home Aurgent as the inevitable moment in a horror fi lm when viewers want to yell at the screen, “Get out of the house when you’re sick, washing … now!” your hands frequently,” says The coronavirus outbreak has turned life in 2020 into a nervous waiting game for updates. What’s the latest Centers for Disease Control headline? Which events have been cancelled? Why aren’t there enough test kits? How many states have declared expert played by Laurence an emergency? This week, even James Bond went into quarantine, so Fishburne in the film to speak. The release of the 007 movie No Time To Die was moved from April to November over worries about theatre closings in Italy, South Korea, China and Japan — ‘ all countries hit hard by Covid-19, the abbreviated name ’ for the virus. Monday, March 9, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Anxiety is rising. So is the number of people watching Contagion, a well-crafted drama that until recently was relatively forgotten. It’s become a hot rental at online sites like Amazon Prime and iTunes. Why is everyone so eager to see something that is guaranteed to freak them out? Maybe it’s the lure of facing your nightmares. As director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) told The New York Times, “I was really curious to see how well it would line up to what is happening right now, it was shocking. It felt like I was watching a documentary that has all these movie stars playing real people.” Nowhere is that more evident than in a scene where CNN’s Dr Sanjay Gupta — yes, the real guy did a cameo — is interviewing a Centers for Disease Control expert played by Laurence Fishburne. “Our best defence has been social distancing, no handshaking, staying home when you’re sick, washing your hands frequently,” says Fishburne. That sounds like a clip from every cable news channel right this minute. Art imitates life so closely in such sequences that you may wonder if the rest of the movie is going to SPOTLIGHT: The star-studded cast of Contagion. come true. That’s a frightening prospect, because the screenplay airport bar, coughing as she waits your face — or anything, really. to investigate the sites. Elliott Gould blasts Law’s careless by Scott Z Burns envisions for a delayed fl ight. The camera As clues pop up in Hong Meanwhile, rumours multiply journalistic standards. “Blogging catastrophic loss. pans to all the places her germs are Kong, London and Tokyo that a that the virus is actually a military is not writing,” barks Gould. “It’s But Contagion is fi ction, and the spreading: the bowl of nuts that pandemic is emerging, Fishburne or industrial weapon. Law touts a graffi ti with punctuation.” coronavirus, as bad as it’s been, she’s been eating from, the credit and his CDC team must scramble natural cure, forsythia, on his blog Contagion fl oats many plot hasn’t reached the devastation card she hands to the bartender, the to identify and contain the virus. without any solid proof, then brags twists that echo what is known levels of the movie’s imaginary machine where the card is swiped. They track clusters of infections about having 12 million unique about Covid-19, like its connecting MEV-1 virus. Remember how Jaws kept you out at health clubs and elementary visitors to his website. One of the the origin of the fi ctional virus to In real life, Covid-19, fi rst of the water? Contagion makes an schools and, in Winslet’s case, put movie’s more gratifying scenes is bats and pigs. Recently, in real life, detected in Wuhan, China, in equally fi erce case for not touching their own lives at risk by travelling when a veteran scientist played by China banned the wildlife trade December 2019, has resulted over suspicions that exotic animal globally in more than 100,000 infected humans. cases and over 3,300 deaths. So far In the movie, a National Guard in America, over 200 cases have The movie is a master class in creating suspense out armoury is turned into a vast triage been confi rmed, with at least 15 of inanimate objects.