That the new post-apocalyptic zombie horror film by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland 28 years later hot, stands for a little more than just a reference to their visionary and dead 28 days later from 2002. Because that calculation is not entirely correct.
Anyway, in Boyle’s zombie universe (known from Training spotting) and Garland (who recently the disturbing hyperactual war films Civil War and Warfare Director) is incorrect. So 28 Days and Years No trilogy with 28 weeks later from 2007, although that film did emerge on the anger virus that they were in 28 days later introduced. Years must be the starting point of a new trilogy. The second part has already been played, and the return of actor Cillian Murphy Days and now world famous thanks to Peaky Blinders and OPPENHEIMER is told as a bait to the financiers of part three.
This is more important. It is now, in 2025 especially 28 years after the British children’s series Teletubbies was broadcast on television for the first time. Hold that. Because that the teletubbies pop up in the prologue may seem funny or confusing, but at the end ensures an alarming cliffhanger. So come in with your media criticism. After all, he was already the starting point of 28 days later: The test animals that spread the alarm virus were “infected” by the 24-hour news cycle of death and violence. What if you are sweet with the teletubbies, while in the world around you a struggle of all raged against all?
Another coming-of-age
Before we get there, says 28 days later Another coming-of-age, namely from Spikey, born on an island off the Scottish coast. There, a group of survivors with gathered things have seen the opportunity to build a new society. A lot of knowledge may be lost in 28 years, so there is no doctor on the island. So Spikey concludes, after he went to the mainland with his father for his First Killwith his very sick mother to look for the illustrious doctor Kelson. That they are there à la The Last of Us Teaching all kinds of evolved zombies, from crawling slow-low, to hypersnelle alphas is good for the horror effects, the winks to the genre, but actually not the most interesting thing about the film.
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That is rather how the film, just like The Last of Usbut then more chaotic and more experimental, on the remains of this genre, new roads are taking. Where 28 days later Aesthetic innovative was through the use of digital cameras – it was also the time of dogma – Years Use of mobile phones, drones and night visits, archive material from British war films and intrusion montages in which zombies appear as afraid flashes. The threatening music is from the Scottish hip -hop group Young Fathers. There is a spoken word recording by Rudyard Kiplings War poem ‘Boots’ woven by the sound design of Johnnie Burn, who, just like with Hollocaust film The zone of interest An immersive sound world created that sinister contrasts with the green of the Scottish highlands.
As a result, it is not only a crazy and avant-garde, but also a rich film, with references to British social realism (Ken Loach ‘ Kes!), Joseph Conrads colonial criticism Heart of Darkness and Anthony Burgess’ Violent Satire A Clockwork Orange. Don’t forget that Doyle ever with Training spotting Braked. This is Training spotting With zombies. The plot is full of surprises, which means that much is a spoiler. At best it is eclectic, but after seeing the first time it also comes across as a plunge bag of raids, which Doyle and Garland have collected through the pop culture during their own quarrels.