Laura said:(L) Pestilence, plague...
(Perceval) Police state goes into overdrive.
Funny, I just watched the movie "Outbreak" because we were going to discuss it on an investigation course. It was my homework.
It is a fictional movie about an hemorrhagic fever that broke out in the U.S. It was surprising to see how the film-makers imagined all the "Police State" way back then. This movie was aired in 1995. Aside from the usual Hollywood touch, the rest felt pretty realistic minus the happy ending. There was even this movie line "The time is now!"
It made people wonder how such an scenario would play out back then. More info here:
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_%28film%29
Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and (very loosely) based on Richard Preston's non-fiction book The Hot Zone.[1] The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, and Patrick Dempsey.
The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus called Motaba in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. Its primary settings are government disease control centers USAMRIID and the CDC, and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly contagion.
The film was released on March 10, 1995 and proved a box office success. It was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. It also raised various "what-if" scenarios: media outlets began to question what the government would really do in a similar situation and if the CDC has plans in case an outbreak ever does occur.[citation needed] A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire during the time of the film's release.[2]