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Essay / Reflection Of The Movie Contagion - 1139
This film has many well-known actors besides Paltrow and Damon, including Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Kate Winslet who play Dr. Leonora Orantes, Dr. Ellis Cheever, Alan Krumwiede and Dr. Erin Mears, respectively. There are many scenes in which these actors show off their wonderful acting, such as when Cheever sees the janitor and offers to help his little boy with ADHD. He shows that he is truly a good man on more than one occasion, such as when he actually goes to help the little boy by forgoing his own medicine. He also proves himself to be a kind and caring man when he calls Dr. Orantes and asks how she is doing, not how her work is going but how she herself is doing. Orantes shows that she is a good woman when her dying act involves trying to give a man her jacket because he is cold. Mears proves herself to be kind-hearted when she runs back to tell the village that their "cure" was a placebo. Of all the main actors, the only one who doesn't seem to have a good heart is Krumwiede. He proves himself to be a manipulated and deceptive man when he decides to risk his fans' lives by lying to them in an attempt to make money and