Before class one day this week, some of us were discussing
our essays and the texts we had chosen. For some reason this made me think of
the movie, “The Happening”. It made me think about it because of what happens
to the people in the movie. We’ve talked about how zombies only act to survive
and what defines them and each definition is similar, but varies in small ways.
I thought about this movie, because I wondered if the people in this movie
could be considered a type of zombie as well. The movie is about people who
start having strange behavior and then kill themselves, but they don’t even
realize they are doing it. In the end it’s Mother Nature’s revenge on how humans
treat the earth. Is that how a zombie apocalypse could happen? Trees and other
plants disbursing a chemical that controls the human mind. It’ a very
interesting movie, and the people who are inflicted with the effects of this
chemical are mindless. The humans are the zombies (they do things mindlessly
and do things for “survival”) and nature has to fight back and kill them. It might
be a little out there, but it’s just a thought.
Could this be the infliction in all zombie horror where they
don’t know where the virus started? Is there no cure because you can’t combat
what you don’t understand? Are humans the true zombies of the world, not in
that they are dead, but they destroy anything in their path for their own
survival and do things mindlessly, without caring who or what they affect?
I belive they are zombies, a different kind of zombie.
ReplyDeleteSeems to fit the criteria,mindless maniacs, hunting people down.
Why do they have to be dead, or half way decayed? This makes me think of I am legend. I would also say those creatures were a bunch of mindless freaks. I would like to challenge the idea of a traditional zombie. Not the slow walking, bleeding corpses we have all come to love, minus a few of us, but a more complex villain, for example, what if the zombies became self aware and organized. That would be scary.
I could relate this to "Apocolypto", Rage against an empire to survive for oneself and those who disagree.
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