The coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic that influenced the world has affected many areas such as health, economy, social, politics and environment. The purpose of this study is to determine how some practices that took place in the pandemic period created the viewers’ feelings based on what happened in the movie “Salgin” (Contagion). The fact that situations such as the closure of schools in the film, quarantines in many places, some prohibitions applied and the disease affecting the whole world were also experienced in the preference of the film. The study focuses on how to read the messages encoded in the movie. In-depth cognitive intake analysis was performed with 8 participants with different demographic characteristics. It was revealed that the participants with different demographic features experienced similar events in the movie during the pandemic process. In this sense, some assumptions have been obtained by taking into account the assumptions of the “Encoding, Decoding” approach put forward by Hall. It was determined that sovereign reading, which is one of the different reading types put forward by Hall, is higher than other readings.