Like its predecessors, 28 Years Later is a scary film. Probably the most anticipated releases on the 2025 film schedule has the identical sense of dread that director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland delivered to 28 Days Later. The zombies are, as soon as once more, a few of the scariest zombies you’ll ever see on movie, and the hopelessness is palpable. The zombies weren’t the one factor that scared me, although. The shortage of compassion by the opposite international locations on the planet is simply as scary.
Spoilers forward if you have not seen 28 Years Later!
Nice Britain Is Left All Alone To Fend For Itself
In a short time, it’s established that within the 28 years because the Rage Virus was unleashed on the British public, the island has been fully quarantined by the remainder of the world. Nobody is allowed to depart, and the shores of Britain are patrolled by varied navies from round Europe. The people who find themselves nonetheless alive on the island are fully on their very own.
Some, like the primary characters, live in relative peace on a small island off the coast of northern England, having shaped a small neighborhood shielded from the risks on the mainland. Others, we be taught, live nearly like savages among the many ruins of the UK. The commonality right here is that nobody helps anybody within the nation. Like, in any respect. That’s extremely disturbing to me.
I Perceive Why The Relaxation Of The World Reduce Them Off… However…
Within the first sequel within the franchise, 28 Weeks Later, which can or might not be canon, the final bit of information we realized is that Rage has reached continental Europe. In 28 Years Later, we’re up to date and discover out that the international locations on the continent efficiently fought the virus off and stopped mass an infection. That’s fantastic, after all. However what got here subsequent is much from fantastic.
In 28 Weeks Later, america and NATO are serving to the survivors in the UK, then practically 3 a long time later, there isn’t any assist in any respect. Not even air drops of meals or medication, or provides. Simply nothing. The survivors are mainly left for lifeless. I perceive the necessity for a severe and arduous quarantine, however no assist in any respect? Not even the naked minimal to assist those that are nonetheless alive?
The Different Nations Of The World Might Do One thing!
The individuals left on the mainland have seemingly misplaced their humanity on some degree. The individuals in the neighborhood off the coast are doing no matter they will to maintain theirs, however as Isla (Jodie Comer) faces a mysterious sickness finally identified as most cancers, she will be able to’t even get medication to assist.
It’s a degree of ambivalence and coldness that actually upsets me. The place is the humanity from these not going through the contaminated? It appears to me that provides may very well be despatched to the wasteland with out risking lives or a diffusion of the virus, so why isn’t anybody serving to in any respect?
That lack of humanity is simply as disturbing, if no more so, than bare zombies, Alpha zombies, pregnant zombies, or bone collectors. Possibly within the subsequent installment, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, coming subsequent yr, we’ll see extra assist, however I’m not getting my hopes up.