Social Justice In Contagion

The movie Contagion directed by Steven Soderbergh demonstrates how fast and effective diseases can spread. The audience quickly learn about a disease that rapidly takes over the world by the cause of one person, the main character of the movie, Beth. After leaving Hong Kong from a business trip, and returning back to Minnesota, she believes she is suffering from jet lag, however, she is later pronounced dead. After the doctors investigated Beth’s death, the federal government and state became involved. Shortly after, many people suffered from the same virus which cause the state and federal government to take action. Some measures that had been taken by the state was to close public schools. As the virus began to spread and more deaths occurred, pharmacies, supermarkets, and more started to close. The characters throughout the movie had very little information about the pandemic that lead people to act out. Stores had been broken into, people started rioting, and houses were broken into. The federal government took precautions to control the

The investigators working on the virus instructed the people well, which allowed people to believe there would be a cure as soon as possible. I do not believe the social justice throughout the movie fair. The investigators working on the virus made their loved ones priority for when the vaccination was created. One of the characters also kidnapped an investigator and took her to his hometown to show her the amount of people he had left in his city. He made her promise him and his people that they would also be priority for when the vaccination had be created and effective. There were some citizens who would have had to wait a year to receive the vaccination, when there were other people such as another investigator who secretly gave herself the vaccination, as she was the first person to see it in the storage