In a devastating sequence, he walks through the hospital and later the city of London in a daze, his calls going unanswered. Jim awakens from a coma, in a hospital and utterly alone. The film focuses on one such survivor, Jim (Cillian Murphy), 28 days after the initial outbreak. What it’s not given credit for is bringing paternal themes into a post-apocalyptic narrative that often dedicates more screen time toward motherhood as the key to man’s survival.Īfter a trio of animal rights activists inadvertently unleash a rage virus from a Cambridge medical research lab, the decimated surviving populace attempts to stay alive and find refuge. Along with the 2004 one-two punch of Shaun of the Dead and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead reboot, 28 Days Later is commonly credited with re-animating (I’m not sorry) the zombie genre. Danny Boyle’s 2002 horror film is a shining example of the genre’s ability to comment on the human condition and all that’s contained within. Over several decades, zombie movies have ambled along hand-in-hand with the apocalypse film, reflecting cultural fears about race, gender, politics, war, science, and even the environment. Since its niche cinematic inception distilling the horrors of WWI in silent films, all the way up to the present-day mainstream crossover value of The Walking Dead, the zombie genre has long been employed to frighten, to thrill, and to confront. It was okay for them, and it was okay for us. Selena: “I don’t want her to have to fuckin’ cope! I want her to be okay! When Hannah had her dad, it was okay. Look, Hannah is what Frank says she is, okay? She’s tough, and she’s strong, and she’ll cope, just like I’ll cope, and just like you’ll cope.”
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