Warm Bodies

Well, sure, it's Valentine's Day, sounds like a good day to talk about the movie Warm Bodies.

The main thing that interests me on this one is the continuation of the zombie movie-as-social-commentary. Though I haven't seen that many zombie flicks (mostly the zombie pastiche flic's Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland) the zombies representing whatever social ill, is a long standing trope, making cries against "The Red Scare", commercialism, any isms really.

But the zombies here were representative of a lack of appreciation for life... that sounds like a google translation of the actual thing being represented. Heh, maybe it is: zombies as personification of ennui. What makes this movie different from any other zombie story I know of is it doesn't just analogously decry whatever the zombies represent, it offers a prescriptive solution. Finding and feeling that life. Getting back into the saddle. This movie isn't about the last few survivors at the tale end of a zombie apocalypse, it's the discovery of a cure that rejuvenates the zombies, the world. The word the movie specifically uses is 'exhumed'.

I was mostly struck by this because of how much I identified with the neurotic main character R the zombie... yeah, I've been a bit depressed for this past week, walking around with zero energy, yup, that's me as a zombie. So how could I not be happy to see R get better and become human and alive again, and leading the way for the rest of zombiekind to get less brain eaty. It was a heartening movie in that way and just what I needed. I feel like I'm out of that down phase and back to normal... that said, I walked around a lot today and am exhausted, so I don't have energy at this exact moment, but close enough.

Ah, but another possibility is that I was just physically ill and didn't know it. I ran out of breath and got light headed far too easily, which is evidence of just plain being sick.

I'm falling asleep at my keyboard here, so yeah- it was Romeo and Juliet with zombies, but with a happy ending. I think I've avoided spelling mistakes. Good night!