Contagion

WOW. Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. Barricade yourself in your house! Don't eat unfamiliar foods or associate with unfamiliar people. Take your kids out of school. PANIC!

These are the things that will run through your mind after watching this movie! Suspenseful and intriguing from the very beginning, this movie keeps you guessing the entire time. I was constantly thinking of possibilities and the variances. Besides wonderful acting and an interesting plot, this movie has a lot of heart as well. The characters are going through the worst imaginable scenario and to watch how they all react differently is both inspiring and heartbreaking. Matt Damon gives an especially moving performance as a dad on the edge of sanity after the ordeal he is forced to go through.

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The moving story lines and scary this-could-happen reality grips you from the first moments of the movie. Moving smoothly between multiple story lines and cities, the script effortlessly tells the all-to-possible story of life and loss that our culture provides with each advancement of technology. We accidentally create something terrible, then we engineer something to fight it to the point that our bodies become immune. This movie makes you stop and think about your everyday life, the germs you come into contact with, the ways that you can get sick, the ways that you can spread germs to everyone around you.

Violence, Sex and Language:

The movie is not violent in that the way we usually think. There are a few disturbing scenes as people succumb to the virus and seize, foam at the  mouth, etc. There is one scene in which hungry people start a riot in effort to get the food for their families. This movie is void of major fight scenes and bloody or gory content.

Violence: 1 out of 5

Sex:

This movie has absolutely no sexual content. Scary - yes. Sexual - no. Two point for Hollywood. :D

Sex: 0 out of 5

I do not recall any language in this movie, but I believe there was. I was so wrapped up in figuring the whole thing out that I didn't hear half of what was said. I would catch myself in mid-thought; I would have tuned out a few minutes of the movie in my own though process. This is one you may want to watch more than once. Many characters say D--- and S---, but I couldn't tell you when or who or where. Again, I was in my own thought bubble. That being said, I think I would have to rate the language as follows:

Language: 2 out of 5

End Point: Contagion is a great movie. It makes you think about your actions, your children's actions, the actions of those around you. It may leave you cautious for a few days, but caution never hurt any body, did it? You'll have to watch to find out...

~Sarah