The latter is a satire of consumerism, where zombie and human alike find comfort in a shopping mall. The former is a story of mankind’s hubris, how we created and cultivated an organism that eventually supplanted us. Perhaps the problem is that they were trying to combine two contradictory stories – The Day of the Triffids and Dawn of the Dead. 4 Boyle had directed Trainspotting several years earlier and would go on to direct Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. Garland and director Danny Boyle want the “zombies” to be representative of humanity’s rage and paranoia, but the plot isn’t structured in a way that allows that theme to be explored. 3 To name just a few! He is a talented and accomplished man but I could tell that this script was from early in his career. It was written by Alex Garland, who would go on to write Dredd, Ex Machina and Men. More generally, I thought that the script for 2 8 Days Later was a little sloppy. Murphy’s performance as he breaks down in tears is genuinely touching, and feels much more believable than his “romance” with Selena. But did it need to be a romantic connection? The most heart-breaking scene in the film is when Jim returns to his parents’ house and finds that they died by suicide rather than live in a post-outbreak world.
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One of the major themes of the movie is that isolation harms a person’s psyche – Selena needs to care about other people to hold onto her humanity throughout the apocalypse.
I understand what Selena’s arc is trying to convey.
What happened to the Selena who killed an infected Mark because she had to? She also becomes less capable as the film goes on, turning into more of a “damsel in distress” that Jim can rescue at the climax of the movie. Staying alive is as good as it gets”Ī few days later, Selena has fallen in love with Jim for no real reason. “Got a plan yet, Jim? You want us to find a cure and save the world? Or fall in love and fuck? Plans are pointless. At the start of the movie, Selena mocks Jim for his naivety: I appreciate that they cast a woman of colour as the deuteragonist of the story, but her character arc felt stale. Maybe it was the direction or the editing or the way Noah was shot but I just didn’t buy it at all. Mark talks about how he was in a crowd at Paddington Station, how the infected attacked and he had to clamber over trampled corpses in order to escape. I have to be honest here – I don’t find either of them that compelling. 2 Played by Noah Huntley and Naomie Harris respectively. Jim eventually runs into two survivors, Mark and Selena, who are hiding in a newsagents. I wasn’t nostalgia I was feeling, more a mournful curiosity. It struck me how the War on Terror, the housing bubble and the digital revolution has changed London’s geography and how humans interact with it. I visit the city regularly – I know what these landmarks look like. This is a very famous sequence that has been homaged and referenced across all forms of media, but the main thing that struck me while watching it was how much London has changed.
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