Jeva's piece on "The Dead Don't Die" is good, and really nicely lays out the extent to which every character in the movie is an exaggerated version of the actors' own reputational excess:https://theweek.com/articles/847011/dead-dont-dies-meta-punchline …
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But this does interesting things with the underlying "zombies as climate apocalypse metaphor": every character in the movie turns out to be exactly what you thought they would be, based on what you know about the actors, just as there are no real surprises with climate apocalypse
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So the movie is playing with the problem of "knowing in advance what will happen" and how utterly odd it is that everyone behaves exactly as they otherwise would. The extent to which no one really grapples or tries to grapple with what is happening IS what the movie's about.
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In our era of "fast zombies," there's a particular strangeness to watching a movie of old-fashioned *slow* zombies--instantly recognized as such--which nevertheless kill the living hell out of everyone
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It sidesteps the prepper fantasy of how YOU would survive the end that shows like the Walking Dead work to instill; instead, it's about how, as the end is becomes inevitable, you'll get sad, demoralized, and then passive
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A few of the people killed by the zombies are taken by surprise, or don't realize what's happening. But most of them--that we know of--are sort of... complicit with what happens. They know what is going to happen, but they're too sad to try to avoid it.
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You should write about the movie (I mean as an article). I think many of the reviewers have been baffled by the movie, so this is clarifying.
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