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The ABC movie, “Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America” is getting mixed reviews. On the one site critics say the movie is only there to scare people, and on the other side commentators say the movie helps show the reality of what could happen.
The movie follows a fairly typical scenario of a businessman flying home from his visit to China. He is of course infected and dies shortly after returning to his home in Richmond, Virginia.
Next, the country’s top epidemiologist, Dr. Iris Varnack (played by Joely Richardson) flies off to China to check the human-to-human transmission of the avian influenza. Her predictions are not good. Her report to Washington is that between 150 to 350 million people globally could die.
Amid the chaos, instability, soaring prices and usual hardships plans emerge and unlikely neighbors become community organizors.
As the wave of bird flu dwindles in America, Dr. Iris Varnack is called upon to check a new, deadlier strain in Angola.
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Not unlike a scenario I wrote several months ago, I think this type of movie helpful. The more we understand what the dangers could be, the more we are likely to avoid some of the very pitfalls “Fatal Contact” so vividly depicts. What do you think?
(Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America, with Joely Richardson (Dr. Iris Varnack), Stacy Keach (Collin Reed), Ann Cusack (Denise Connelly), Justina Machado (Alma Ansen), Scott Cohen (Gov. Mike Newsome) and David Ramsey (Curtis Ansen).
Executive producers, Diana Kerew and Judith Verno for Sony Pictures Television; written by Ron McGee; directed by Richard Pearce.)
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yeh, but do we need to be scared about this? i hear we aren’t to panic
Panic is not good. Yet many need to become scared enough to start preparing. Too many people think, it can’t happen here and now. Hopefully the movie will wake some of them up.
I think they were off on some details, but if they made people think that it could be real and they’d better get ready, that’s a plus.