Intergalactical Frisbee: Movie Review: 28 Days Later

I'm not weird, I'm just very awkward

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all 'Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.' But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.

Midget small, ultra blonde hair, blue eyed and fidgety.
I'm not weird, I'm just very awkward. The worst part of being as awkward as i am is that i know I'm doing it. I know I'm being irrationally awkward but i can't stop, it's something i swear that's been hardwired in me since birth!

If anything i'm a reader.
Weddings, school trips, family outings, family meals, birthday's and what have you, my mum would have to search and question me before such events. Because if she didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way i'd be found in a corner reading. That's just who i was. I'm not weird, i'm just very very awkward, i have suffered my whole life from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if i had been understood....

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Now back to the present, i'm 16 years old and slightly grazing the tiny height of 4ft 10 (yes, midget) i'm attending collage... And well lets just say it's rare now for me not to have at least a small book with me wherever i may go.
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I will eventually grow up and live a life people approve of....(maybe) =P

Stephanie x

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Movie Review: 28 Days Later

-28 Days Later-

(2002, Directed by Danny Boyle.)

Writer: Alex Garland
Release Date: 1 November 2002 (UK)
Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot: It has been twenty-eight days since Jim, a young bicycle courier, was knocked off his bike and injured in a car accident. When he wakes up from his coma, the world has changed. London is deserted, litter-strewn and grim, and it seems the entire world has disappeared. The truth, however, is even more horrifying - a devestating psychological virus has been unleashed on the world, turning the population into blood-crazed psychopaths driven only to kill and destroy the uninfected. A bitter struggle to get out of the city with fellow survivors to a military encampment at Manchester follows - but there, their troubles are just beginning... Written by Scott

Taglines:
>His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.

>Day 1: Exposure - Day 3: Infection - Day 8: Epidemic -Day 15: Evacuation - Day 20: Devastation

>The Days Are Numbered

>Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing...

Awards: 7 wins & 21 nominations
User Comments: "A Cracking Zombie style horror, with substance"

Intergalactical Frisbee: Review
28 Days Later is a great film about a blood-borne virus that has horrifying psychological and physical side effects. It is about the human will to survive at all costs. It is about what each and every one of us could become if we were to leave our rage unchecked. In case you may not have been paying attention, though, it is not about zombies. These aren't the slow zombies that George A. Romero presented to us.. Oh no, these things aren't coming out of there coffins and death beds, there human and very much alive, i assure you. They're called 'the infected' here in Danny Boyle's breathtaking vision of a Britain crippled buy infection.

The virus is 'rage', it's passed though the blood, any slight nip, scratch, kiss (yes I'm counting in kiss, cause what you would find when watching the sequel '28 Weeks Later' is that it can be passed though saliva. As seen when a desperate husband, played by Robert Carlyle, kisses his rescued wife who happens to have the virus lying dormant inside of her. She being a very worn host to the infection but still managing, barely, to control her mind over the raging virus inside her.) Once infected the reaction is immediate and permanent, it might be you're brother or sister maybe even your oldest friend but it makes no difference once hounded by the infected you better do a hell load more than scream!!!

28 Days Later..hammered down the rage in a brutal post-apocalyptic manner.
We watch as Jim walks aimlessly within a deserted London, shouting loudly across the abandoned cars and toppled double Decker buses, hoping for someone to answer his call. But now as we pace into the first five minutes, following slowly behind Jim as he enters a dark groggy building. With walls marked and screwed in writing, echos bounce off the high buildings four corners as he steps into a new world. When he sets his eyes upon the bloody scatted bodies below him this new world opens up to him. A world screaming with gore and seething with blood thirsty cannibalistic Infection.

What scares me about this film, why it leaves me having several small strokes...?
Because this really could happen!

It's a really strong paranoia to have on life i know but biological warfare is now becoming part of our lives, left and right, no matter where you go. Yes people being more awake than ever to the dangers of disease is growing fast, we shouldn't be worrying about terrorism, we should be worrying about what we can do to ourselves.
It isn't a case of if, but when. People tend to be ignorant when it comes to a virus of some sort, but the fact remains, we cant heal everything, there's isn't always a cure. With this information that he had gatherd it's just like the man Boyle to trot along and scare the living shit out of us!