28 days later [2002]

what blows my mind is that this flick is 13 years old, already.  i have the dvd and have watched this flick scores of times.  my disc is full-frame rather than wide-screen.  no matter except that you miss a hell of a lot in the movie if you are watching full-frame which crops a lot of shit out.

i remember when i bought this movie on dvd.  the store, suncoast dvd, is way out of business.  there was a suncoast in the local mall that i'd frequent after work.  that store is long gone.  it's business model was subsumed by online streaming.

hell, movies are still made, right.  i own the dvd of this pic but it was playing on BBCAmerica tonight.  what got me was how director danny boyle shot many of his scenes.  for the lot of these scenes were filmed at an angle, askew to the viewer.  i'd not noticed the tilt of most of the scenes before.  or if i had i'd forgotten the camera tilts.

boyle's neo-zombie movie were the first of the new millennium to employ a faction of zombies in our, to borrow a phrase by george bush i, the new world order.  the new world eats the survivors.  the survivors are us, post capitalist, post enlightenment.  we survive by clinging to what we know, whether that be mcdonald's fast food or post-industrial manufacturing.  boyle's camera tilts are reminders of how our world[s] gone all kinds of awry.

that's the thick of it.  boyle i think was more concerned with a post-epidemic feature.  for when this movie was made mad-cow disease was ravaging europe.  and yet boyle made a movie more in tune with our post-911 sensibilities and fears.  we have become afraid of the other.  even if the other kicks down our doors.