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Robbie Conal created posters for this film that pair two sketches of a man with the subtitles “Prophet” and “Profit”; shots of those posters are used to punctuate this film’s montage of empty rooms. The opening of Ennio Morricone’s score for The Battle of Algiers inspired Cliff Martinez’s score for this film. This film rapidly switches between left- and right-profile shots of an Australian with bad teeth giving a TV interview about a “math problem you can do on a napkin.” In this film, a woman reminds her father that he taught her about Barry Marshall’s (*) Nobel Prize. Scott Z. Burns developed this film’s conceit from a scene in his script for its director’s film The Informant! At this film’s climax, a man hears “All I Want is You” by U2, while he cries at a photo of his wife shaking hands with a chef at a Macau casino. In 2020, critics revisited this film’s ending montage, in which a pig eats a banana dropped by a bat. For 10 points, (10[1])name this Steven Soderbergh thriller about a pandemic. ■END■ (10[1])

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