![]() ![]() It's a world in which it's EASY to be terrible, but that's not an excuse, it's an interesting and dramatic position to put characters in. That's the sort of character study we're talking about here, characters in extreme environments given dramatic, powerful choices and either rising above or falling behind. I saw a short film this weekend called "Spoiled Rotten", in which a mother grows too attached to her zombified child to the point of insanity. ![]() The way society crumbles in an apocolyptic story, especially with an everpresent danger, what it does to people.zombies create a world in which we can push people to their limits. It makes us face mortality, it gives us really cool gore effects, it allows us to look in the face of mortal danger without having to actually endanger ourselves personally. We're fascinated by death, we're fascinated by gore and blood. I think the interpretation that zombie fans all secretly want to be roving murderers and rapists(the first time I've seen this assertion was in this thread but sure) is a terrible, outside looking-in sort of assertion. especially considering that was the entire point of Dawn of the Dead? I guess original thought isn't my strong suit today. Because zombies are dead people in wich you can reflect your own mortal destiny. The zombie concept puts that idea right in the street and shakes it right in front of you. We all know we re going to die someday but we don't like to think about that, and that after dead we are all gonna be rotten and ugly. I mean natural death, not the threat of being killed. Into a more deep thought zombies also show something that most of us don't want to face, that is death. It's rock bottom for everybody at the same time, and the story stays there, moving around in rock bottom without any kind of safe net. You can have other kind of monsters confined to one little place, or situation and outside that everything is normal. Your neighbors and fellow citizens that you see around you everyday.Īnother one is the inevitable destruction of social structures that comes along with the zombies. One is that these monsters are real people and not and external supernatural being. There are several things about zombies that i like and makes them stand out from other kind of monsters. ![]()
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