The Ending of Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, Revisited

The film opens on a quiet black screen punctured by a single sound: a woman coughing. It’s not just nervous throat-clearing. This is a heavy, phlegmatic cough, one that telegraphs with zero doubt that this person is sick. Over the course of the next 106 minutes, the cough becomes the he… More »

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