As I was walking to class this morning, watching my fellow students marching on their way to their classes, I found myself relating their movements to those of the B movie zombies that I love so much. The quiet shuffling of hundreds of feet, all dragging along in the early morning sun brought fond thoughts and images to my mind.
I am an avid zombie movie fan; some might even consider me a connoisseur or a purist. I have watched the zombie classics many times, as many of them as I can get my hands on. But as I was marching along in the lifeless crowd I was reminded of the social remark many of those films were trying to make; remarks on a commercially driven society. The movie Dawn of the Dead, by George A. Romero was a revolutionary movie which was filled with symbolism. In it the heroes found themselves taking refuge within a mall. Throughout the mall there were zombies, and in much of the movie the zombies are depicted acting as more primitive versions of humans.
In his newest film, Land of The Dead, Romero gives his lifeless zombies even more human qualities. It seems from the very beginning that the zombies are trying or pretending to be human. When I watched the movie a second time, and again as I was walking to class this morning, I was hit with the revelation that sometimes it seems that we humans, are merely pretending to be human.
2 comments:
Zombies and I have never been that close. Well, I mean there aren't many zombie movies I love. I must admit, however, to a special fondness for 28 Days Later and Peter Jackson's Dead/Alive.
I guess I'll have to watch some of the ones you mention!
28 Days Later is a good one, I own it. However there is a alot of debate in the Zombie film communities as to whether or not it is a zombie movie.
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