TB Incident Proves This Was a Prophetic Film
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Panic in the Streets
gnolti — 18 years ago(June 04, 2007 10:07 AM)
Last week's real-life clifhanger involving an Atlanta lawyer carrying a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis shows that art is way ahead of reality.
This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. -
jim6263 — 16 years ago(July 02, 2009 08:20 PM)
There's no need whatsoever to remake/'update' this film (esp. to compensate for HW studios' pathetic dearth of ideas, greed, and arrogance toward its consumers/ audience/s and Independent filmmakers!). Its subject is absolutely contemporary as it is, what with the looming alleged flu 'pandemic', aside from being an exceptionally well done film. Superbly directed on location by a great, always socially conscious and prescient director, who was, as usual, decades ahead of his time!
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Jason_Radley — 14 years ago(May 24, 2011 09:52 AM)
There was nothing prophetic about this film. In fact, it was right out of mediaeval Europe. Now, if it had been about the hunt for terrorists or criminal blackmailers with a pandemic-threatening culture, then you may have had a point.