Wednesday, June 26, 2013
WWZ
Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a semi-retired UN worker who reluctantly is drawn
back into the field to save his family and all of humanity. His
zombie-readiness credentials are listed by his agency head as field
experience in the conflict zones of Kosovo, Chechnya, and especially
Liberia; and with this, the racialized naturalizing of interpersonal
human violence begins. After zombies suddenly swarm through New Jersey,
Gerry gets his family to the safety of offshore naval vessels and then
embarks on a search for patient zero, in hopes of finding a cure. In the
book, this would be the outbreak of disease in China, but in the film
this is South Korea, which we never really see, beyond a mostly white
military unit on a US base besieged by walkers. Gerry immediately loses
his South Asian medical investigator to a panic-induced, self inflicted
gunshot to the head, runs several harrowing zombie gauntlets, and picks
up vital intel from a deranged CIA officer who suggest that answers lie
in Israel, which has somehow managed to wall itself off from the plague,
and also mysteriously seems to have known in advance that it was
coming. Gerry says something about “they’ve been building wall for two
millennia,” and then he’s off.
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