01.01.70

(PG-13, 2011, 106 minutes)

This veil ends with death on an unimaginable scale. Steven Soderbergh tells a fib of raging menace and out of control fear. It offers us thirty-something days in the sentience of a global pandemic, a lethal virus that travels like the end up and kills without a trace of mercy. Soderbergh, who divides his career between unwatchable folly projects and crackling mainstream fare, has never been the warmest of filmmakers. That coldness serves him well here. He expertly choreographs an formidable cast that includes major players like Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard. Some of their characters will animate, some will die. The face behind that opening, unseen cough belongs to Paltrow, who plays traveling businesswoman Beth Emhoff. Introduced in an airport on her way lodgings from a trip to China, she thinks what ails her is some minor bug. Except it's not. "Contagion" like greased lightning exposes us to desperately ill individuals all over the world.

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by ponderanew

            We moved my dad into an assisted living apartment last week.  It’s active to be a cogent consider for him.  He is tried, will get advantageous meals, has his meds regulated and has friends there that he has known for decades.  Dad embraced the move with candid joy and thankfulness, and already seems more settled and at unbelligerent than he has been in weeks. 

            But in statute to get him there, my kin John and I had to move dad from the dynasty in which he has lived for more 45 years—and that was a principal criticize. Forty-five years in one firm means there’s a lot of piffle tucked in lots of nooks and crannies.  (OK, there was a monster amount of tommy-rot in every separate crack and fissure!)

            You see, my mom and dad were children of the Economic decline, part of that genesis that doesn’t forgo anything away because ‘I might penury that someday”.  They were also interested in outmoded collectibles such as epitome cars, tea pots, canes, teddy bears, whisk brooms, corkscrews, etc....

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