People are stuck in a hole, people occasionally fly around looking for others, People don't find anyone. The zombies grow bigger.
Divisions grow between the people living in the hole.
Everything comes to a firefight. The zombies escape, the people are swarmed, everything is dead.
This film was clustered with problems. There where filming issues, its budget was cut down, the screenplay had to be completely changed; along with a lot of the script to deal with the budget cuts.
George A Romero had to put up a whole whack a crap.
and despite all this he ended up making one of my absolute favourite films. Which gives me a slightly conflicted emotion because this film is most likely not what he envisioned at all. And probably looks back on it with less than favourable memories.
But that's life, what are you going to do.
It's a simple film with simple themes, simple set locations and a simple crew.
The film hints at bigger ideas and concepts but ultimately doesn't go anywhere. And that's the beauty of the film. It's all hopeless.
There's no striving Utopia, no hopes of turning back the infection or disease, plague, curse. Whatever it is the zombies are composed of.
The scientists efforts seem to be for nothing if only to discover that the zombies are learning and that The Human Condition is even more pointless. The military just wants to shoot them all but they having the resources nor their Logistics to do so along with no hindsight to what to do with afterwards. And then you've got the rest of the characters who are just kind of indifferent to the whole thing and are willing to sit around and wait for the inevitable to take them.
The most developed person would be Sarah. She's the one that seems to be keeping everything together and trying to establish some point of order to everything. She doesn't just want to study the zombies for the sake of study, she doesn't just want to find people for the sake of finding them, she doesn't just want to kill zombies.
Evan the zombies endeavours seem to be pointless. As we get an entire scene dedicated to explaining why it is the zombies want to eat. It seems to be nothing more than a survival Instinct as they show 1 zombie lacking all internal organs and still having the yearning for human flesh.
The most developed person would be Sarah the protagonist. She's the one that seems to be keeping everything together and trying to establish some point of order to everything. She doesn't just want to study the zombies for the sake of study she doesn't just want to find people for the sake of finding them she doesn't just want to kill zombies. she wants to do something more. The problem for her is he's not sure what. Because she can't seem to get behind any of the other groups she can't dedicate herself to one form of thinking over the other. And ultimately nothing she decides to do will have any effect on the greater world at large. She talks about getting in contact with Washington DC and possibly reestablishing her small community with a greater civilisation. But nobody else seems interested and the aspects of actually doing this is almost impossible.
And you end up feeling a form of dread for her. As you realise that there's really nothing she can do. She seems to be the one cause of order in a world that's completely turned to chaos. And when she breaks then at the end you can understand completely. She has to amputate her ex-boyfriend's arm deal with nearly being eaten by zombies and put up with having guns aimed at her face by a group of militaristic psychos who make up half of the community she's currently living in. How couldn't you break down from something like that.
And if nothing else the Practical effects are worth watching the film for. Although if all you care about is practical effects then you may want to watch the first 10 minutes of the film skip to the last 15 minutes and then look up all the small chunks with the zombies and the brain chemistry on the internet later on. because there's a good chunk of this feeling that's just people interacting with one another.
Which arguably is the best part of the entire movie.
The acting in the film is good, not great just good. And I think that works out best for a movie like this because the slightly over-the-top reactions from some of the characters make it far more enjoyable to watch. Especially given the ridiculous environment they live in.
How could you blame anybody for acting like an oddball when they're surrounded by the Living Dead for months on end.
The soundtrack is very good too. It's so good that you probably won't notice most of it throughout the film. Which is kind of the point of the soundtrack it's supposed to add to a movie not take it over.
Conclusion is quite simple. It's a fantastic film you've probably already seen it. Nothing I've said is going to change people's minds. It's already a cult classic so it's kind of pointless to have me say what a zillion other people have already said. It makes up the perfect end to the perfect Trilogy of films.
It's a great end to arguably the only good trilogy.
Which might be a little silly to say given that this series isn't really a Trilogy when you think about it.
The Night of the Living Dead doesn't technically connect with Dawn of the Dead at all. And this movie doesn't really connect with Dawn of Dead either. You can argue that they're all in the same universe and there's nothing to say that they can't be. But at the same time they're all their own movies they don't have to be connected. Maybe that's why they make up the only good trilogy.
And I'd be remiss not to bring up Bub. The one zombie who becomes a character in his own right. And that's an impressive thing to do given that zombies are Mindless background props with no rhyme or reason. Most movies can't give me good reason to care about robots but somehow Romero makes me interested in the literal Walking Dead.
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