Looking back today, as a typical British black humor film, Sean the Zombie is full of British humor and ironic eyes in every detail that British filmmakers pay attention to. Let’s start with the name of the film. Perhaps the translation from Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time is not satisfactory enough today, because Of the dead emphasizes being a member of the living dead in this context. This is at the beginning of the film. The true meaning can be realized by portraying people of various colors in supermarkets and streets like cold machines.
London, which looks glamorous in appearance, is indifferent and mechanical in reality. Everyone is like a machine on an assembly line, repeating his bewildered life day after day. The protagonist Sean is also one of them. He was still a small salesperson in an electrical appliance shop almost in his early years. He had no enthusiasm for work. He rented a house with a roommate who thought he was domineering. Of course, he was still loyal to his otaku. Share their meager salary. The girlfriend also gradually alienated him because he didn't like his procrastination and lack of self-motivated—it was obviously a story of a small person living in a big city.
But when the little man is awakened by the weird and extreme surrounding scenes, he recognizes himself again, knows how to make decisions, take responsibility, become brave and sacrifice for his friends, he realizes that everything around him is not unchangeable, and It is necessary to eliminate prejudice against others, calmly face the departure of relatives, and do everything possible to save the people around you.
If the zombie attack can be understood as a feeling of desperation for contemporary society, then Sean and David, who appear in the image of "common knowledge", are the representatives of two kinds of people facing this kind of predicament. When David is facing a crisis He showed hopelessness and indifference everywhere. He couldn't get rid of this desperate mood and the tense and nearly broken nerves. In the end, he could only be swallowed by this despair. And Sean and his good friend Ed chose a very 2B-looking but very strong-hearted way to deal with the crisis that appeared in front of them.
It is precisely this way that even if a large number of zombies strike, the life attitude of good friends who are wrong to make phone calls out of time has saved Sean, and it is precisely this way that he has to smoke his last cigarette when he sees his friend in danger. The way of thinking has saved Britain, which has not fallen through the flames of two world wars. A new note was added to London golf courses during World War II: changes in scores caused by air strikes are not counted in results. This is a kind of humor, but this kind of humor that is not afraid of danger is strong, whether it is because of the arrogant character of the once sunless empire, or the selfishness of the people in the "small merchant country", the British are everywhere ridicule. The unhumorous spirit is obviously the most advocated spirit in this film, and it is also the best way to resolve the contemporary social crisis that the director thinks-although the world has become irrational, crazy and violent, it is for everyone who lives in it. , We still have to maintain our own humor and bravery, and our lives will definitely change.
Leaving the British Isles blown by the Atlantic sea breeze and returning to the ancient continent where we live, the madness that happened in London is happening more or less around us. Every day, we lose one friend after another. They may be dead in our view, or they may become a terrifying member of the "them". We can't do anything about this reality. One day we may find that the road to the tavern where we used to meet and chat with good friends has become extremely difficult, and the tavern itself has become fragmented and innocent.
But looking around, we are lucky that we still have our good friends, lovers who are about to break up with us, and those who are waiting for you to save them, and those who seem to be annoying but are still alive. With the living, even if the road to the tavern is full of countless walls of different styles, it is just a fence that can be surpassed; even if the friends around you will leave and your loved ones will die, you must always keep your heart That innocence, self-deprecating and never-giving-up humor, insisting on all this is like the line in the movie: resolutely don't say the word with Z, because the situation is not that serious.
Because we all hope that "someone will live".
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