The book National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government
Control in Hollywood detailed the authors’ “astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US
military and intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents reveal for the
first time the vast scale of US government control in Hollywood, including the
ability to manipulate scripts or even prevent films too critical of the
Pentagon from being made — not to mention influencing some of the most popular
film franchises in recent years.”
I bring up that important book because of its relevance to
one of the most popular movies being streamed now, during the COVID-19
“pandemic.”
I question whether this eleven year old film on a viral pandemic was itself a
co-creation or influenced by direct government control; certainly the creators
admit to working with government experts. That film is Contagion, and it is currently undergoing an online
viewing resurgence in light of the COVID-19 pandemic as millions are
“sheltering in place” at home, without work, confused and afraid.
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The Independent headline reads, “Contagion becomes one of most-watched films online
in wake of coronavirus pandemic.” The New York Post article’s headline on the
film’s recent popularity is titled, “How the movie ‘Contagion’ perfectly predicted the 2020
coronavirus crisis” but my question is there a more sinister agenda
in play in what the film portrays?
The site Vigilant Citizen wrote a prescient
article published on March 8th, 2012, when the film was
released and the author discussed the potential motives of the creators and its
implicit messages in an article “Contagion”: How Disaster Movies “Educate” the Masses. The first paragraph states an obvious truth:
Most people watch movies to be
entertained. Well, I for one can say that there was absolutely nothing
entertaining about Contagion. In fact, the only difference between this
movie and state-sponsored educational movies shown in schools is that
withContagion you actually have to pay to be indoctrinated … and to see
Matt Damon. During the cold war, students were shown videos instructing them to
“Duck and Cover” in case of a nuclear attack. Contagion conditions the masses
to expect martial law and to throw themselves at the first available vaccine in
case of a crisis.
Readers of LewRockwell.com have read the very useful and
potentially life saving advice offered by Bill Sardi on COVID-19. Recently, Lew posted
this surprising Fox News piece on Political Theater from a Fox News story, “Former CDC Chief: Coronavirus infection risk may be
reduced by Vitamin D.” I have no idea how long Fox will allow such
good common sense, science based evidence to remain on its website and I’m sure
Bill’s writings aren’t easily found using Big Tech search engines. The site
Orthomolecular.org has featured news of how use of IV C seems
to aid greatly in treating COVID-19 patients. Yet in the film Contagion, the
alternative press is depicted as not only incompetent but corrupt and any
suggestion of action other than vaccination and following orders that result in
surrender of liberty is held in contempt. As Vigilant Citizen noted:
If specific groups and organizations are identified by the movie
as “competent” and “trustworthy”, other groups get a very different treatment,
namely alternative media. Personified by a blogger named Alan Krumwiede (played
by Jude Law), alternative media are presented as unreliable sources bent on
sensationalism and profit. In other words, the movie implies that information
that does not come from “official” sources is invalid and potentially dangerous.
Not exactly a pro-free-speech message…
The character of Alan Krumwiede and the way he is portrayed is
interesting for several reasons. First, he reflects the growing influence of
blogs and alternative websites on public opinion – a recent phenomenon that
does not sit well with the elite that seeks to have a monopoly of information.
By depicting this character as dishonest, corrupt and even dangerous to the
public, the movie justifies the shunning of such writers and even their arrest.
Nobody in the movie seems to mind that all of this is in direct violation of
the First Amendment.
Second, when the H1N1 vaccine was released in 2009 and mass
vaccination campaigns were organized, many citizens and authoritative figures
including public health officials, doctors and specialists spoke against it.
They claimed that the vaccine was unnecessary, insufficiently tested and that
it had negative side-effects. By associating the corrupt figure of Alan
Krumwiede with the “anti-vaccine movement”, the movie discredits all of those
who question the necessity of mass vaccination campaigns. If another virus
should strike, viewers of Contagion might be more prone to ignore these
movements. In other words, the movie says: “Conspiracy theorists are corrupt
liars that are dangerous to public safety and they should be arrested. Do not
listen to them. They make money off phony cures. However, those who make even
more money off phony vaccines are good. Listen to authorities and get the
vaccine … or you’ll die…”
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Contagion may be presented as a work of fiction, but it communicates
several important messages that authorities need the public to accept. To do
so, the movie defines a specific problem that has actually occurred in the
past, it identifies the agencies that have the right to take charge of the
situation and proposes the only solution required to fix the problem. That
solution is not pretty: The dissolution of the government, the imposition of
martial law, the creation of civilian camps, forced vaccination campaigns and
the suppression of free speech. Democracy and civil rights are summarily
suspended and we witness the establishment of a highly controlled and monitored
society (using barcodes).
The question is the film a prediction of our future or
wishful thinking for the authoritarian oligarchy? Most recently, Vigilant Citizen provided
an updated article, How the Movie “Contagion” Laid the Blueprint for the Coronavirus
Outbreak. Of
course, legacy media is almost hysterical in its praise of the film and its
relevance. The writer of the screenplay, Scott
Z. Burns, (whose prior credits include an Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth) was recently interviewed in Slate, where he
opines, “I think the gravest mistake is not giving the space and the microphone
and all of the support to the public health officials who can help guide us
through this. We have really good people in this country. They need to get
together and be allowed to speak to us clearly and not be filtered. I have read
accounts in the press that Dr. [Anthony] Fauci isn’t really allowed to speak
until Mike Pence has approved his messaging. That is concerning to me. If we
are going to get through this in the best version, it is by empowering those
people and giving them the resources that they need.”
Most likely, readers might be aware or be interested in
watching Contagion. My concern is that the film’s purpose is not
benevolent but as usual, Hollywood serves their masters’ agenda, an agenda of
fear, control, misinformation and authoritarianism. As the saying goes, “Caveat emptor.”
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in a house full to bursting with books, including works on classical Greece and
Russian history and literature, and has contributed to LewRockwell.com, Unz.com
and to TheSaker.is. Her interests include gardening, mythology, ancient
history, The Electric Universe, and classical music, especially the
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