4 . 30 . 21 A taxi arrives at a desert retreat center, bearing a young woman with a surgical mask around her neck. As the car rolls past the gate and into the compound, an old woman runs out of a white structure and screams, “Stop! Stop! Go back!” She’s covering her mouth, in fear of some unseen, airborne danger: “You’re contaminating this entire area!” The woman in the taxi urges her driver to stop; she, too, it seems, shares the same horror of contamination, of social distancing violated. The scene is as contemporary as, well, today. Yet it comes from Safe, director Todd Hay...