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Coronavirus: 10 Movies About Pandemics and Other ‘Apocalypses’

Coronavirus: 10 Movies About Pandemics and Other ‘Apocalypses’
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The Covid-19 quarantine increases interest in movies and miniseries about viruses, epidemics, and pandemics with striking coronavirus-like appearances.

1 – The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone is an American drama miniseries, which premiered on May 27, 2023 in National Geographic and traces the origins of the Ebola virus, which is highly infectious and deadly from the Central African rain forest and its first arrival in the U.S. In 1989, when the virus suddenly appeared in primates in a scientific laboratory in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., no cure was known. A heroic United States Army veterinarian working with a secret military SWAT team put herself in mortal danger when she tried to prevent the outbreak before it spread to the human population.

 

2 – Contagion

Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Bryan Cranston, the feature film chronicles the spread of a disease that suddenly arises. It all starts with an American woman (Paltrow) becoming infected when visiting a casino in Hong Kong, and the virus spreads rapidly. The epidemic reaches all corners of the world, killing a large part of the population. Health authorities are fighting to contain the disease. To try to find a vaccine, a WHO doctor embarks on a journey to follow in the footsteps of the first woman who became infected with the virus.

Contagion, the movie that predicted the coronavirus: what it is and how to see it
Contagion, the 2011 Seven Soderbergh film, explains the stages of a pandemic. Its filmmakers said the film may help understand the new coronavirus.

 3 – Virus

Although it was released in 2013, these days Netflix offers it among its enormous offer and thousands of people discover it (or see it again by resignifying it). Virus, the South Korean film directed by Kim Sung Soo hits. Any resemblance to reality is not pure coincidence. A preview of what the Coronavirus would be?

 4 – Outbreak (1995)

 

It is on Netflix and has already reached the podium of the most viewed. Outbreak (in English), was released in 1995 and stars a cast of luxury: Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Dempsey and Renee Russo.

The plot begins in 1967, when Billy Ford (Morgan Freeman) discovers in Zaire a virus called “motaba” with a mortality rate of 100% in just 24 hours after infection. The US government It supposes that bombing the infected town will destroy that single outbreak. But, 30 years later, the epidemic will break out.

Epidemic, another movie that predicted the coronavirus: the deadly contagion by an animal
Coronavirus is the pandemic that is making reality the plot of several films. In addition to Contagion, there is Epidemic, a catastrophe thriller about an Army virologist trying to prevent a global health crisis unleashed by a monkey-borne virus.

 

5 – Blindness

Blindness is an adaptation of the 1995 novel Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s Essay on Blindness. The argument is about a mysterious epidemic of sudden blindness that is unleashed in the world and that causes the total collapse of society. The film is a metaphor for dependence on social structures and the implementation of unknown mechanisms to survive. Only one character – the doctor’s wife played by Julianne Moore – does not lose her vision and will be in charge of leading the blind to a successful conclusion.

 

6 – Twelve Monkeys

Twelve Monkeys is a science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker’s movie La Jetée (1962), and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt and Christopher Plummer. The plot describes the story of a prisoner named James Cole (Bruce Willis) who, in a post-apocalyptic world, volunteers to do a scientific experiment that aims to travel to the past to find out what caused the situation in which he lives in the future, in which the Earth’s surface was contaminated with a virus so powerful that it forced the surviving population to live underground.

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