I’ve been struggling recently with movies. My poison of choice when I needed to decompress was movies. But obviously, since deprogramming, i’m kinda allergic to imperial propaganda.
But 28 Years later ist kinda good. No obvious points for either side apart maybe from the settler fetish but alas.
Attention, slight spoilers ahead:
Since this is the third iteration of 28 days later, great britain has been devastated by a rabies like virus and zombies have killed basically everyone. The rest of the world still exists but has isolated britain. The plot is about the 12 yr old main actor living in ireland in a walking dead style settlement. He then walks over a foot bridge that submerges in the tide with his dad to explore. The usual stuff happens.
In the end, the only thing that I could derive from it was that it is basically what barbarism could be portrayed at.
Any other opinions on that movie?
Fantastic fuckin film. One of Boyle’s best IMO. This is a film made by British people about how fucked Britain has become and many American viewers hate that because it’s not something that’s catered to them. I’m a massive 28 fan and even though I very rarely go to the theaters I went for this one (still the only movie I’ve seen in a theater this year) and it was was one of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had. It’s stylish, it’s emotional, it’s amazingly well shot, it’s actually scary IMO, I just can’t get enough of it and I was thinking about it constantly after walking out of the theater. Also just to make a small correction, Spike is from Holy Island which is in Northern England, which makes all of the weird warrior culture stuff even more prescient; that island has a storied history with vikings and what not which is kinda sorta what the inhabitants in 28 Years Later are, in a way. I’ve read that Jim is returning in Bone Temple and his Irish heritage will become more important then which makes sense since Ireland is also quarantined canonically (we don’t know yet if that was a preemptive measure or if NATO/the rest of the world threw them in with the quarantine just to be safe, hopefully we get some answers in later films).
But yeah, I think it’s amazing but many viewers wanted an straightforward action horror film like 28 Weeks Later where they get to see a bunch of people slowly get infected and other people shoot them but I loved it for having subverted that.