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| land of the dead When I was younger, oh about three years ago, I used to ponder life after The End. That has begun to change. I have always been fascinated by Post Apocalyptic fiction and I have mentioned it here before. A bit of the interest came from the "cleaning house" concept that I imagine I share with alot of scary New World Order types. But the main fascination was heroes surviving by their wits and people making a new world out of what was left. A recent read (Dies the Fire, SM Stirling) drew together many points as to why I would never consider it cool to see the world as we know it end. The book illustrates how quickly disreputable but powerful types would take control and how decent people would have to let others die in order to survive. No tragic hero of the people. We'll talk about the prevalence of wicca and SCA types in the book later. I just watched Land of the Dead and this also covered the fact that the world would take a long long time and a lot of people dying in order to become a cleaner house. And who says we as average crappy people would ever let it get better. The fourth zombie movie doesn't find the gleeful rednecks of the ending to the first. It finds rich powerful people setting up strongholds and using the common folk as a meat shield against The Stenches. We get a little story in this Fiddler's Green about a few heroics and the end. Zombie movies both fascinate me and scare the (un)living shit out of me. You would think it would be easy to avoid shambling mounds of moaning teeth. But it never is; there are always so many and just when you think you are safe another one comes through a window and bites your neck. Being blindsided by circumstances is something I understand and fear. This movie is only as successful as a Romero movie can be. The many ways to have your flesh torn off and eaten gets tired pretty quickly as do his menagerie of The Recently Dead. So all we are left with is a roadwarrior style shootem up with big fancy vehicles and tough chicks with guns. As a followup to his scientifically investigating Day of the Dead, I would have preferred to see a movie on a grander scale where we explore the rest of the world. Perhaps a road movie where a group of years seasoned travellers are trying to reach a mythical safe zone. I would want to see how things have changed around the world and hear pseudo histories. Are we all inevitably going to be eaten or is there a possible timeframe as to where the zombie masses can just decay and fall apart? October 18 05 |
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