Cinema and the COVID 19: when fiction meets reality in Steven Soderbergh ‘Contagion’ 2011

Abstract EN

The present work outlines the relationship between the movie fiction and reality the case study in this study is the movie contagion (2011) directed by Steven Soderbergh.

the work tries to focus on the way of building the movie to present fictional facts of a world pandemic situation and its main issues.

nine years later, the movie becomes a reference in terms of prediction after the spread of COVID19.

the similarities between the movie and the reality of the crisis put forward the role of the cinema industry that goes beyond its simple entertaining role.