Question

Could somebody please help answer these questions.TIA!

Identify a movie (or TV series) you have watched about HIV or other infectious diseases or epidemics. (examples: Dallas buyers club, The normal heart, Contagion, Outbreak, And the band played on, Philadelphia, Angels in America, Rent)

1. Explain the plot of the movie in a few sentences
2. State in which ways you think the movie is accurate - using references to support your answer
3. State in which ways you think the movie is not accurate - using references to support your answer
4. In what ways did the movie help public understanding of the issue?

Answer 1

All of the above mentioned movies are related with HIV or other contagious diseases. Among these, The movie “Outbreak” can be considered as a well example as it is a reflectance of the current scenario: The outbreak of the Zoonotic disease ( non human animal to human transmitted disease), Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).

• The movie “Outbreak”(1995) ,Direction: Wolfgang Petersen and story : Richard Preston, shows the occurrence of deadly virus spreading throughout a small town in US, brought to by an African monkey.
• The movie shows the Do’s and Don’ts of that we should take care of in those situations.
• The move is accurate as it bring an imitating life of the Corona virus scare in the Chinese cities. Reference: https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/coronavirus-scare-has-turned-chinese-cities-ghost-towns/article/3050583.
• Story of the film does not focus on effects of the virus, rather than giving importance to cureness, which makes a far better film.