Has the movie "28 Days Later" come true????

[growlypants]

Well, I watched the movie "28 Days Later" over the weekend (yes...I ILLEGALLY downloaded it) and came to the horrifying conclusion that the movie is an analogy for whats happening in this country. A good majority of the populace has been infected with a "virus" that has turned them into "zombies." It really is that simple. These "zombies" are the right wing, conservative nut jobs who seem to have taken over our country and the virus is extremism. They are out to destroy, to EAT, those who are uninfected (ie. we liberal democrats and anyone else who doesnt agree with their mindless, zombie rhetoric). These zombies must "feed" or they will starve, and who do they feed off of??? Us, the uninfected, the nonbelievers. And fear. They feed off the fear. In the movie, they capture a zombie and tie him up in the hopes of finding out how long it will take him to starve to death. You see, if the zombies dont kill the "uninfected" and feed off of them, they die. By learning how long this starvation process takes, they hope to discover how long they must hold out before the zombies start to die off and the "uninfected" begin to take control again. Well, how long do we have to wait for OUR zombies to starve themselves to death??? Has the process already started?? I used to feel alone (like the main character when he first emerged onto the empty, deserted streets of London) calling out for anyone else who could hear me. Alone in a world of the "infected." Now I'm seeing more and more of the "uninfected" coming out from behind shuttered windows and boarded up doors, not afraid to stand up against the starving, desperate zombies. These 'zombies" are slowly starving themselves to death and our group, our cause, is gaining momentum which grows by leaps and bounds every day. There is hope......maybe the entire world ISNT infected by these "zombies", maybe we (America) have simply been isolated intentionally from the rest of the world until we can handle our "zombie" problem. Then the rest of the world will open its doors to us again and accept us graciously as they have in the past. But its up to US...we either feast or famine.

[Modem Butterfly]

1. 28 Days Later was an AIDS allegory

[growlypants]

2. but HERE im comparin it to whats going on politically

[Modem Butterfly]

3. I think Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a better allegory

[growlypants]

4. True!!!

[Howardx]

6. Boyle made the same comparison

The film maker agrees with you:)

[Howardx]

5. That's not what Danny Boyle said

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Danny Boyle: Alex and Andrew had been working on the idea. Alex wrote a draft of it. It was a very genre idea, and then we started working on it together, as we always do. We spent many months working on it very intensely. When I read it, the first draft that Alex wrote had this fantastic idea in it -- the cliche of a virus escaping from a laboratory but there was this twist on it; it was a psychological virus, which lifts it away from the biological realm. Also, the film concerns social rage as a phenomenon, certainly in Britain.

This was around the time of foot-and-mouth disease, which doesn't affect human beings, but it did lead to these Biblical images of cows and livestock being slaughtered in the millions. At the time, they felt apocalyptic images in the British countryside. They were followed by this absence of many months of any livestock in the countryside. If you took a train journey, everything was still and motionless outside the train or outside your car as you drove through. All this kind of fed into it.

iW: Were you worried about feeding into people's hysteria? This film seems more relevant now -- with SARS and anthrax scares -- than it may have a few years ago.

Boyle: You can't claim responsibility deliberately. But darkness is what is always fascinating. When you sense darkness on a wide scale in a country, then you feel like you want to make a film about it in some way. Certainly that's what we did.

We made the film based on that, and of course while we were making the film, September 11 happened. People see new things in the film, and that's a really interesting phenomena. Now, of course you've got SARS, and then there'll be something else. So it's extraordinary, really. It addresses a kind of public anxiety that we have, which we're responsible for.

Best part! ...

We always try to externalize the threat, and make it the bad guys over there but actually the real problem is us. I think on some deep level we know that, that we're always the problem ourselves.

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I think he had more political thoughts on this.


http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_030627boyle.html