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28 Years Later Is Totally Nuts
And not necessarily in a bad way.
As they’re cheered on by fellow villagers, Boyle cuts, in his energetically herky-jerk, mixed-media fashion, to fragments of heroic paintings and footage from Laurence Olivier’s 1944 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V(itself an attempt to lift British spirits during WWII). With its fears of the horde and its images of neighbors and loved ones turning into brainless, berserk beasts through contact with infected outsiders, the zombie story — along with other classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein — always held metaphoric power. The new movie’s obsession with reminders of the fallen reflects not just the long wake of the pandemic era, but also the numbing, ceaseless spectacle of death on our screens, as we scroll past images of murder and cruelty beamed into our phones from places that are, at least for a little while longer, Not Here.
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