Is the director not afraid of the audience leaving the scene when making a movie like this?

Wendy 2022-03-20 09:02:12

It is rare to see such a freewheeling film. Doomsday is very common in Hollywood movies, but you won't believe it. Because he doesn't have the big special effects, big scenes, high-tech, superheroes or anything you think. Some are just residents of a small town, ordinary policemen, ordinary hotel owners, troubled students, scavengers, small shop owners and so on. The movie takes two policemen in the town as the main clue. Their job is to patrol the town and handle reports from residents. Suddenly one day, with a natural vision, everyone discovered all kinds of unusual things, but they couldn't be sure what was going on. It's just that it was dark and very late, and there were phenomena that shouldn't have appeared in the forest. Just after everyone fell asleep, the end of the world came. The next day, there was a murder in the town. The owner and waiter of the only restaurant in the town died, as if bitten by a wild animal. However, it has been rumored in the town that the zombies were dried up, so the police went to investigate and found that there was indeed a problem. So a battle between humans and zombies is about to start. But when you're a bloody zombie movie, the movie also gives you sci-fi elements, so you see aliens. The movie is a quiet zombie-themed comedy, happy that the death of zombies is not as disgusting as you've seen before. For example, after a zombie is beheaded, what you see is a gas spewing out of the neck, no blood plasma, which seems quite abnormal, but think about it and you will feel that there is nothing wrong with it - "The Zombies Don't Die"

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  • Vance 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    As the sister of "Only Love Eternal", the extremely unpopular "The Dead Don't Die" more clearly exposed Jarmusch's bottleneck and crisis in film creation. If the former made a good record unintentionally to describe a bad world, then the latter made a bad world on purpose for a good single. The essence of Jarmusch's success or failure stems from his understanding of Buddhism. Therefore, in this "singing" new work, he pondered a well-known advertising slogan: Those who believe in "Buddha" will have eternal life! Because "law" is not absent in the current (capitalist) context, but completely ineffective and completely useless. There's really no way a scowling sheriff can take "The Beasts," yet I think the eloquent title is a self-deprecating and ironic immortal rather than a pessimist's prophecy. It echoes the point of view of Marx: "Even if a society has explored the natural laws of its own movement, it can neither skip nor abolish the natural stages of development by decree, but it can shorten and alleviate the pain of childbirth."

  • Donnell 2022-01-05 08:02:06

    (7.2/10) The current world forces Jim Jamush to stop talking about literature and history. Started to satirize reality with zombie movies. Still always use contrast to create a comedy effect. It's just in "Zombies Are Not Dead". The media is always selling anxiety. There is no way to tell whether the news is true or false. Violent scenes broadcast on scroll. PD did nothing. People are treated differently because of their different positions. In this collective chaos. Someone paralyzes themselves. Some people simply give up. It won’t help for someone to persevere. At the end of the film, Jia Muxu yelled at himself as a bastard by the role of the character. It's not just that he can't make up the script. It's him as a modern man. He is also disoriented and insecure. "The zombies are not dead." The concepts of "death" and "life" blur the boundaries. Everything is just as Matty Healy sings. "Modernity has failed us."

The Dead Don't Die quotes

  • Farmer Frank Miller: Holy fuck! I killed him! That was weird.

  • [last lines]

    Hermit Bob: What a fucked-up world.