Film Summary DLXXII (The Crazies)


Here we are with George Romero film that's been on the old list for a while. 'The Crazies' a film of small town being quarantined because Trixie* got out and started turning people nuts.

It's a semi dramatic movie with a bunch of people trying to survive in an Ever increasingly hostile world.
At first you think the whole film thing to be about incredibly insane people becoming too numerous and over running the town in a blind rage.
But really the crazy people are kind of indifference to the problems of our survival protagonist. They're a big issue for the Army but that's only because they're so poorly put together and uneducated that their entire quarantine procedure to fail.
I mean they have this whole setup for an atomic bomb they're going to drop on the town if everything goes belly-up. But at the end of the movie they just export their colonel out of the place. There's a different town experiencing similar symptoms.
A scientist who was supposed to be fixing the problem ends up getting killed because of the vast incompetence of the army.
They think he's one of the common people and try to throw them in with the rest then they toss them to the side. He drops his two vials of vaccine and gets himself killed. And the whole time I kept expecting the story to grow into a bigger situation but it really doesn't.
It's just a bunch of confused people trying their best to survive in a pretty crummy situation and you're left on a massive Cliffhanger with what will actually happen.

And really that's all there is to it. Everything else is just mundane conversations between people as they either try to make sense of their surroundings or they try to contain the problem which of course they can't because the Army's bureaucracy and quarantine procedures are so numerous and poorly thought-out but it takes you 20 minutes just to get in contact with somebody from the other side of the town. It's made all the more worse than you realize that half of the army isn't even all that sure of why they're here.

This is another one of those films that caught my attention because of the poster. A person in all white containment suit with a gas mask looking menacingly at the spectator. It really caught my attention and to be fair the movie I got wasn't a disappointment. It's perfectly serviceable and it has some unique moments. It's just nothing you'd want to write home about.

*That's Trixie the virus not the weird blue horse with a funny wizard hat.

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