April 4, 2020

Nine years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Soderbergh’s film, Contagion, presaged the current outbreak.  The compelling narrative aside, it was the film’s closing sequence that haunted me when I saw the film.  In the first vignette in the sequence, a heavy dozer emblazoned with the “Aimm Alderson” logo plows down a tree in a tropical forest.  The felled tree […]