Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.
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For those who watch this for a zombie flick, this will be a disappointment. That is not what this film is about.This is a movie of subtext. It is a statement on multi-culturalism and the demand to conform to social norms. The Zombies can represent any modern stereotype - from homosexuals to immigrants, or people with HIV or disabilities.It is a statement about society's respect for the individual. We want to think of ourselves as socially permissive; accepting of differences; PC.But the more people just want to be left alone, the more our fear-driven prejudices emerge. The climax of the movie is a wake-up call to audience of just how much we, through the course of the movie, have judged the characters, based solely on stereotypes.This isn't a Zombie flick; it is a human flick, with zombies.
An often entertaining movie with plot holes, contradictions, continuity errors and characters doing things from out of the blue. Various elements are also left unexplained. Watch ZA: Zombies Anonymous instead. It has a similar sense of dark humor and depicts the zombies in similar way (with intelligence and the ability to function in society. while being a much better put together film.While this movie is entertaining and it's mockumentry style intriguing, it is very sloppy, especially towards the end. Only watch if you can ignore major flaws.
This is not a conventional zombie movie, this takes the stance that zombies are not necessarily brain munching mindless creatures, but some of them, while still being dead still retain most cognitive function. A group sets out to make a documentary on zombies, specifically centred on ZAG the Zombie Activist Group and how they are fitting into modern American Society. It should also be pointed out that this cast and crew were generally quite inexperienced when they made this but it's not obvious for the most part.***SPOILERS*** Some of it is quite black humoured which is good, there are few Zombie movies that have any humour at all and the whole documentary feel to it is reasonably well done, particularly when the crew argue amongst themselves about what to do. However it is a little too long and the ending stinks of a hasty re- write
I will try to be as vague as possible while still remaining coherent so as to not give away too much.I liked the movie and it is possible that I am over interpreting the movie but want to address statements that the end is in contrast to the majority of the movie. It isn't, the reasons for the resurrection of the "revenants" and the basic motivations for the zombies is suggested early on in the movie and the movie does provide confirmation of the reality of this motivation subtly quite early. The movie presents the motivation as manifesting in various forms through the characters dialogue, multiple world views interpreting the basic motivation of the cause for their resurrection. It makes what is happening at the end more coherent, the characters various ethical dilemmas and basic motivations manifesting in different forms. The zombies discourse is close enough to resemble the major discourse present in living human society such as love, equality, art, meaning and truth, but the unconscious drive behind these positive terms is something else not human and the majority of them are probably are not conscious of the disparity.