{"id":3134,"date":"2011-09-16T16:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:20:35","slug":"contagion-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"Contagion (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MV5BMTY3MDk5MDc3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzAyNTg0Ng@@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MV5BMTY3MDk5MDc3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzAyNTg0Ng@@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTY3MDk5MDc3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzAyNTg0Ng@@._V1__SX1859_SY893_\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MV5BMTY3MDk5MDc3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzAyNTg0Ng@@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MV5BMTY3MDk5MDc3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzAyNTg0Ng@@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>I do not have a whole heck of a lot to say\u00a0about\u00a0<a title=\"Nothing spreads like fear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1598778\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contagion<\/a>, but that is mainly because it is so well-packaged that it does most of its speaking for itself. First, you take a ridiculously powerful cast (well, it&#8217;s also extremely large, so I guess the dilution might make it a merely powerful cast, but then again, through the powers of homeopathy, it may instead be the strongest cast imaginable), then you put them into a terrifying script where an unknown disease is running rampant through pretty much the whole world. But it&#8217;s not like The Stand, because instead of proceeding to tell a religious story, they tell the story of how the world might really look in such a circumstance. Sure, it wasn&#8217;t a horror movie, but it was tense and dramatic all the time. But it was also really damn scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not have a whole heck of a lot to say\u00a0about\u00a0Contagion, but that is mainly because it is so well-packaged that it does most of its speaking for itself. First, you take a ridiculously powerful cast (well, it&#8217;s also extremely large, so I guess the dilution might make it a merely powerful cast, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[446,513],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-drama","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}