My symbolic isolation

Paolo 2022-03-18 09:01:02

The billboard of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with a huge window overlooks the world from a 37-story building. There is sleet falling from above, no cars waiting at traffic lights, and no pedestrians on the street. During the outbreak, the city was silent. I turned on the knob of the battery stove, filled the iron pan with clean water, and after it boiled, I submerged the noodles in the water. The air conditioner kept roaring and breathing uninterruptedly. I was alone in the room for three days. The sound of breathing seemed to be talking to me. I felt that the sound of breathing seemed to fluctuate with pitch, even showing a kind of narrative. In the past two days because of the epidemic, I lived in an apartment in the center of Lujiazui, surviving on the vegetarian noodles delivered from the supermarket next door. After watching the panic for 28 days, the zombie world wars, the night swallows the world. I like the theme of zombies. I have seen almost all the movies on the theme of zombies, even the worst. I have a self-explanatory theory: the existentialist explorer's relationship with the world, and others are hell. Zombie movies are mostly the subject of the world has passed away and survive alone, and the quilt, through the exquisite observation of the external world and the heart. And now the world is the same. Tiny raindrops fall from a high altitude, passing through the layered rendering of neon, and the night sky is illuminated by billboards. They estimate that they will turn off all the lights in advance tonight.

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  • Michel 2022-04-23 07:01:09

    The evil of human nature is more terrifying than the absence of human nature. I believe this is the original intention of Romero to create the loss film genre. Feminists probably don't like this movie...

  • Elias 2021-10-20 19:00:26

    4.5; Never before have I seen a zombie film with so many layers. The symbolic meaning of the infection is announced from the very beginning through footage and words to be'rage', and the violence induced by it henceforward becomes the centre of the film's criticism. But what adds to the film's complexity is the fact that the protagonist is empowered only by rage to fight for those he loves and defeat the purposeless soldiers, who by contrast fight for nothing but themselves. The film thus indicates a place for violence in humanity and hints that violence is not inherently the abject. It also draws a comparison between two archetypes of fatherhood: permissive & autocratic

28 Days Later... quotes

  • [Jim asks Selena and Mark about the government]

    Jim: What about the government?

    Selena: There's no government.

    Jim: Of course there's a government! There's always a government. They're in, a bunker or a plane.

    Mark: No, there's no government. No police. No Army. No TV. No radio. No electricity. You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days.

  • [Major Henry West makes a joke about Sergeant Farrell after the Sergeant gives a speech on civilization]

    Major Henry West: Have you met our new age Sergeant?

    Major Henry West: [the other soldiers laugh] Tell me, Farrell, why exactly did you join the army?