At first I thought this drama was about how to get along with your lover after turning into a zombie, but later I found out that this is a post-zombie movie with a very deep theme. After everything returned to normal, people were cured, how can the resurrected zombies reintegrate into the family. The attitude of every family member and friend in this village towards half-mortality actually implies the attitude towards same-sex relationships in our current society.
First of all, the male protagonist Gillen's family, his parents accepted him, but he kept making Gillen pretend to be a normal person, pretending to eat, pretending to play games, and refusing to accept the reality that he became a zombie, and sister Gemma, in fact, always wanted to Trying to break the disguise, she really wanted to accept him as a zombie, including his shortcomings, including his past, and then treat him as a zombie without blurring his identity.
Rick's family is at the other extreme. Rick's father gets word that his son is a zombie after he just killed a zombie. He refused to admit that his son was a zombie, and forced everyone else to pretend to be normal. Especially the scene where I went to the pub to drink, it was really weird. And Rick's mother loves her son very much, but his mother doesn't know how to lose contact, so she is sometimes afraid of him.
There is also a female zombie in the film. Her performance is to show herself without fear of other people's eyes, to show herself, and not to be afraid of her own identity. She confronts discriminatory eyes and is threatened or even violent, so she finally chose to leave this place and look for it. An organization that can truly identify with her.
The other supporting characters in the film, such as the female nurse, the people of the two regiments, as well as the pastor and Philip, also have very interesting behaviors and attitudes, which actually represent the attitudes of various groups in our society today.
In fact, this film never mentioned homosexuality from the beginning to the end. We only found out that they were in love from the photos and words, but the whole film uses zombies as a metaphor for homosexuality. The profound way shows how this society, every family, and everyone accepts and views the same-sex thing. The issue of homosexuality is not actually a slogan we shout, supporting homosexuality and anti-discrimination. But when you have a real family around you and a friend who is gay, how to look at him as a person, instead of putting a label on him. A comrade lives in the same society as us, he is also a normal person, and his interpersonal relationships are the same as ours, with family members, friends, and living in the same community. Everyone is complex, and even though there are all kinds of people who don't like same-sex, they strike a balance in weird ways, some families may go to extremes, some families maintain a tacit understanding.
This is the current position of homosexuality in our society. Religions will try to exclude homosexuality, but there is no way for a normal secular family to completely exclude it. He will choose to avoid this problem for various reasons. We It can't be treated as heterosexual, nor can it be discriminated against, how to really identify and accept his true identity. This is what our society should strive to change.
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