Laughing at the sick world to entertain to death-"Zombies Are Not Dead"
Today we will talk about the movie "Zombies Are Not Dead".
The title of the film The Dead Don't Die / Kill The Head (2019), also known as The Dead Don't Die (Hong Kong) / The dead do not die / Zombies never die.
"Zombies Are Not Dead" takes place in Centerville, a small town in the United States. There are not many residents in the small town. Everyone lives in a quiet and peaceful life. Suddenly one day a major event happened on the earth, the rotation axis deviated from the original angle, and then the whole world was in chaos. The animals first became strange, running away from home one after another or becoming irritable.
The story unfolded in this context, and the residents of the town gradually discovered the strangeness around them. At this moment, the dead people who were originally buried in the cemetery were resurrected and became undead zombies. The residents of the town need to do everything possible to save themselves and resist the attack of the zombies.
The most notable feature of the film is the gathering of old guns in the film. With the assembly of the famous independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, a large group of famous actors have joined.
Bill Murray, a professional ghost hunter who just made a guest egg in "Zombieland 2"; Adam Driver, an old driver with wonderful performances in the "Star Wars" series and "Marriage Story"; full of neutral beauty Ancient Master Tilda Swinton Tilda Swinton; Chloë Sevigny in "American Psychosis"; Steve Buscemi in "Atlantic Empire"...
As long as you see their faces, you will feel very familiar. When a group of old guns gather together, the movie is very exciting.
The U.S. government exploits polar resources and over-exploits minerals, causing the earth to deviate from its rotation axis.
Subsequently, the government used all channels to confuse the audience, openly lie for the benefit, and completely ignore the strangeness of the earth.
In the end, human beings are self-sufficient. In order to plunder more resources and cause catastrophic consequences, they have to reap the consequences in the end.
Director Jim Jamush satirizes the entertainmentism of today's society with the film. Excessive exploitation of resources is used as an introduction, and overly greedy consumption is also a manifestation of entertainmentism. When the zombies climbed out of the tomb, Jia Muxu's mind was obvious. He wanted to use zombies to refer to those who entertained to the death in modern society.
The resurrected zombies can only say one word, and that is the thing they were most obsessed with during their lifetime. Wifi, Bluetooth, Siri, coffee, baseball, golf... they are all obsessed with entertainment. Similarly, zombies will be attracted by the most obsessed things during their lifetime, and will still go to find their favorites after being resurrected.
The zombies in the film are like the masses of real society.
Everyone is immersed in the illusion created by the entertainment facilities and is indifferent to the real world. As long as the fire hasn't burned my eyebrows, I can just use the vibrato quick video for a while. How does the real world situation matter to me?
The zombies have been edified by entertainmentism for a long time, and their thinking ability gradually disappeared. Descartes has long put forward the view of "I think, therefore I am". Because zombies have no brains, they have no ability to understand the meaning of thinking, and naturally there is no meaning of existence.
In the past, the zombies in the film were intended to be people’s fear of the lower class. The only remaining humans represented the elite class, and they tried every means to eliminate the troubles caused by the lower class.
In this "Zombies Are Not Dead", the image of the zombies has become the most popular representation of entertainmentism, and each zombie represents a thing that was once popular in life. Zombies' obsession with hobbies during their lifetimes has become the film's biggest irony to entertainmentism.
As long as a zombie bites a living person, the living person will be infected and become a new zombie. This is the normal setting of zombie films, and under the arrangement of director Jim Jamush, this infection process is like the spread of entertainmentism.
Entertainmentism accurately grasps the weakness of human behavior and can easily bring pleasure to consumers. As long as they have tried various products of entertainmentism, people will soon be addicted to it.
The popularity of social software in the past and the popularity of short video apps now illustrate this point. When the masses are eroded by entertainmentism, human beings who seem to be alive on the surface have become walking corpses who can't think and don't want to think.
"This isn't gonna end well."
From the beginning to the end of the movie, Lonnie, the little policeman, kept repeating this sentence. When you thought Lonnie was an unknown prophet or a pessimist, Lonnie broke the fourth wall and told you that he had read all the scripts early.
Jim Jamush uses such a method to tell the audience a cruel fact that in the face of the doomsday, people will eventually make their own minds, and there will be no savior to save this group of people who are not worth saving.
If you look at "Zombies Are Not Dead" from the perspective of regular genre movies, this film can be regarded as a bad-looking zombie movie. But who stipulates that zombie films can only take the serious or bloody or comedic route? Jim Jamush is going to shoot a genre film in an anti-traditional way.
It doesn't matter if someone thinks the movie is not good. "Zombies Are Not Dead" satirizes people whose thinking ability has been eliminated by entertainmentism. How can anyone find Coke even after being mocked.
Jia Muxu took the old cannon to sarcasm endlessly,
Laugh at the sick world entertainment to death.
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