(July 8, 2013 at 1:25 pm)frankiej Wrote:(July 8, 2013 at 11:19 am)Tonus Wrote: The film is based on a novel (though it borrows almost nothing from it, as I understand it). The novel looks at global socio-politics through the lens of individual recollections of how governments and nations dealt with the zombie outbreak. I suppose it's a look at global political schemes via the storytelling device of a potentially-reversible apocalyptic event.
Romero's ones are an obvious choice, but have been analysed to death now. Yet his take on things like consumerism is still spot on.
Can you expand on this?
The only freedom, is freedom from illusion.