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very flawed concept

posted 7 years ago by maximmm (3335)
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I just saw 10 minutes of the film - and then the dude, who was cured, meets his dad and dad gets pissed off because he ate his mom. In the initial minutes, the main character is being treated by the police as a criminal who is being let out of prison. He is being supervised by a parole officer and has to check in with his parole officer every day - and follow his parole officer's orders at all times. WTF?

Surely people were taught what this 'disease' did to people, no? I can understand that sort of reaction from the least educated people, who cannot fathom the idea that people can at any point not be in control of their actions. But those people should be a minority. In this film, that's not the case.

Basically, this film is very flawed - and writing is crappy at best.

[–] johnnybiscotti (445) 7 years ago

I watched this today, and recommend you watch the rest of it if you stopped at 10 minutes. I think what you are not taking into account is the irrationality and emotional reaction of people to the events while the cured were violent.

I think this is a very interesting take on "zombie" outbreak, with an angle which brings to mind current global issues like acceptance of "other" groups (for example refugees).

The dad who rejected his son for killing the mother while infected, that reaction is very easy to understand. Even though we (the viewer) know the son didn't have that intention.

[–] maximmm (3335) 7 years ago

Hmm - I did a bit more of self-analysis and I think you could be right.

There was this news story in Canada of an Asian man who one day, while sitting on a bus, starting to cut off the head of a person sitting right in front of him. He succeeded - and then proceeded to roam the bus while holding the cut off head.

A few years ago, that man was freed from the mental hospital (true story). Meanwhile, I'm thinking a dude who did that should never be allowed to roam the streets ever again. Supposedly he is 'cured' - but in my mind, I keep thinking that no one ever gets 'cured' from a mental disease that extreme. Or how about those mental people who push people on front of the subway? There are a lot of them in Canada - and they too are freed at some point after they are 'cured'. It's not to say that I am uneducated - but relapses in cured mental patients are common for various reasons.

The question that will remain in people's minds is... are they really cured or is the disease dormant in their systems? What are the odds of a relapse?

So perhaps... the premise of this film is not that unbelievable after all. BTW - I did see the rest of the film while fast forwarding in some places.

[–] johnnybiscotti (445) 7 years ago

Yes, that fear of the relapse and the distrust of the 'cured' (or, ex-cons for example) is the issue here. Another theme I found very interesting is the radicalization of the ostracized. I think this could have been explored more, like having a cured character who is eager to rejoin society with a positive outlook, who is then pushed to becoming a 'terrorist' of sorts, like the group led by Conor in the film. To some extend Conor was a character like this, but I felt he was kind of hostile from the beginning.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I think the 'cured' people were damaged because most killed loved ones and still had the memories of the killings. I thought the movie had a unique take on the zombie craze.