Recommendations of the Editorial team
George A. Romero’s penultimate film “Diary of the Dead” made from hand camera perspective in 2007 appeared at the climax of the Found Footage Horror (“Cloverfield”, “Rec”, “Paranormal Activity”), flopped as the only of the associated films and was the only highly political one: A criticism of right media, in which the patient is the patient Zero of the zombie’s depth, which is otherwise illegally immigrated.
Seven film students flee with Pennsylvania with always switched on and meet people who unite their outsider status. And that do a lot right. African -American paramilitaries do not use their weapons to terrorize those who had harassed them racistically, but to defend everyone. Especially those that we had excluded can be the ones who are aside. In the old Romero tradition, the culprits are representatives of the ruling class, white soldiers who are looting the stocks of the students.
“Diary of the Dead” was also prophetic, shows the power of the blogosphere on our self -image, anticipates the influence of social media. In 2007, the MySpace, long forgotten, was number one on the social networks, for which the term social networks did not yet exist. Facebook and Twitter were insignificant, Instagram was not even founded. But Romero’s protagonists are already using YouTube to upload videos of the undead attacks. They provide instructions on how to cut clips to achieve effect. It quickly becomes unclear what information is and what fake news, how you contaminate the network today.
Romero demanded that bloggers question, but ask their amateur journalistic news nothing less than that of the established media. The students are looking for a career as a network personalities, sensing the chance of digital life extension. Because they will be eaten soon in real life.