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About the doors... Fun, but a little cheesy. SPOILER ALERT

posted 8 years ago by whatwazdat
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My wife hyped me into watching this. She said it's so good the script have been bought and there will be remakes. Usually, I think remakes won't be as good, but I think there is room for improvement here, especially for Western audience. The drama, the heart to heart talks between strangers at such chaotic times felt forced and cheesy. Maybe it's cultural thing and there is stuff lost in translation?

But about the doors... I thought it was totally unbelievable that the father, who barely knew what was going on immediately ascertained that the Zombies couldn't open doors and that they attack because they see you. If I'm in that situation, I would question this guy's expertise, and not let the door go and continue to find ways to block it. But the people immediately listen to the father and let go of the door. They are safe. Then they put newspapers on the door so the zombies can't see them. That's a lot of breakthrough knowledge when movie/chaos barely started. But there is inconsistency in the writing here. The revelation that they attack because they see has been established. Yet the characters discover a similar revelation later, that they can't see in the tunnel because it's dark. They acted surprise, like they just figured it out. Well, didn't the father figured it out in the first few minutes of the chaos? That they couldn't open doors, and that they attack because they see?

[–] WiseKing 8 years ago

The people were cool keeping the door unlock because other people would be bit first. That is Human nature. Plus, not everyone on the train knew how the door was taken care of, thus includes the Train Driver. In terror events people just run away and believe it is handled. When it became a small group of people, they did however take the door into more preventive measures. Yeah, the water thing was creative on the spot, but does mirror life in some events.

I think the father was in joy, not shock of the tunnel's darkness effect. The zombies have human vision, so them seeing in low light too, kinda wasn't hard for the humans to already faith in.

[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

Well its not too much of a stretch to realize that the zombies don't know how to open doors. They were holding the door, but the zombies were mindlessly thrashing themselves against it. If they knew how to open doors, wouldnt they be making an effort to pull the door in the correct direction?

I still wouldnt have left any door unlocked though. The random movements of the zombies might work in a way that could vibrate the door open enough for them to get through.

[–] ExCivilian 8 years ago

I wouldn't have left the door just hanging open an inch, but the guy didn't just let go right away like your post implies. He tentatively tested letting the door go before fully taking his hand away. If you watch the scene again you might see what I'm talking about. He hesitates and hovers his hand on the latch. He didn't know how to close it so he didn't really have much choice other than standing there the rest of the train ride.

Aside from that, the dad's conclusions were things I was glad to see. In other movies, obvious observations get passed up for plot reasons. The dad was running through the car and noticed the zombies weren't really going after him unless they were looking directly at him. He also saw the ones in the back who weren't in line of sight and they weren't as excited. As someone else mentioned, it was also pretty obvious they were just flinging themselves at the door.

I think the way those early scenes were stitched together were more realistic than other zombie movies, since we'd typically have been treated to an unnecessarily long fabricated "tense" scene simply because no one noticed some relatively obvious signs.

This all begs the question, however, of why the dad didn't take his shirt off and cover the door's window when they were trying to hold it closed in the end.

[–] jdbabyv3 8 years ago

How is it unbelievable to say that the zombies attack when they see you? Of course they're going to attack when they see you..... He's not making some big world changing guess, he's literally stating what's happening. The pregnant lady is the smart one by covering the window with the news paper and that's just a clever decision on her part. Idk how any of that is unbelievable.

[–] raf-33 8 years ago

Seeing as the father's company was behind it he clearly knew whatever the organism's capabilities were from experiments. Also when you are watching half a dozen people trying to open a door with their face while their hands dangle at their sides even a 4-year old could figure out that they cleqarly do not know how doors open.

I picked up all that from just watching it, you should watch it too.

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[–] captainburrito (128) 5 years ago

"Seeing as the father's company was behind it he clearly knew whatever the organism's capabilities were from experiments."

No he clearly does not. He knows some companies linked to his have some harmful environmental impacts. He has no idea of zombies until he encounters them. That seemed quite clear to me.

[–] Stratego (30497) 5 years ago

I think the door thing was a joke, because a lot of people have trouble opening those things.

[–] msenjur (22) 3 years ago

there were many acasions where they could blind doors, but they left it unconvered... why? we dont know.

as much as we dont know, why didnt dad throw that director over that fance, when he was just turning into zombie. he was all soft and crying about his mother. fuc.k off, go overboard if infected.