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10. Pandemic Conspiracy Theorists - Contagion

Back when the COVID-19 pandemic started, many found themselves comparing the situation to Steven Soderbergh's 2011 pandemic thriller Contagion.

Viewers were taken aback by the behavioural similarities of the masses in both the film and reality almost a decade later, and also the film's use of terms like "social distancing," which of course didn't enter the global lexicon until 2020.

But most of this information was readily available prior to Contagion's release if you did your research, and the film's virus is decidedly more deadly than COVID-19 with a mortality rate of 25-30%.

Yet what Soderbergh's film captures most frighteningly is the culture of misinformation. While back in 2011 the subplot involving Jude Law's conspiracy theorist Alan Krumwiede seemed goofy and implausible, it hits totally differently today.

Krumwiede spends the film spreading inaccurate information about the virus and shilling a snake oil cure derived from the plant forsythia.

Given that there have been literally dozens of fake Coronavirus cures sold online throughout the pandemic, by people stirring up fear and uncertainty in actual science, Contagion has become an intimately prescient film in ways few could've ever anticipated.

In a recent interview, Law himself commended Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns on how incredibly they foresaw the conspiracy theorist deluge:

"Scott and Steven had done a huge amount of research and really sent me all sorts of links to different characters online who were gathering and building followings of their rants and predictions... What's extraordinary, maybe more in a way than the virus spreading, is how characters like that have really started to pop up."