Why is the human doomsday plot so heavy?

Elliot 2022-03-21 09:01:10

Although it was a British film that I watched with a foreign teacher a long time ago, of course, the foreign teacher is a British person and has a bit of a local plot, but I still can't help writing down my own understanding of the film. (It can be said to be nonsense) I
found out that the British have also begun to make horror disaster movies in the past few years. . . . . It is undoubtedly all infected by the virus, and then the British turned into zombies in batches. . . . . Fortunately, British films are by no means a replica of American Hollywood, nor are they bad films.
But all it expresses is a theme-destruction, the fear of destruction of mankind itself. In particular, the British island country is isolated from the European continent and has a deeper sense of loneliness and rejection by the European continent
. That's why this film was made. . The protagonist woke up and walked on the empty street, looking at the Royal Prison, the floor was littered with rubbish and banknotes. That kind of bleak feeling can really make me feel the end of the world is coming. This is also my deepest point. . . .
Although the ending is still the survival of the protagonists?
What does it represent?
hope?

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Extended Reading
  • 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?