people are surprised that 28 years later is feminist when the thesis of the original movie is "what men will do to women if unrestrained is literally worse than most of the people in england instantaneously turning into cannibals"
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the first one is an artsy and legitimately horrifying zombie movie. the second one is a schlocky zombie movie with artsy bits. i haven't seen this one. i am excited.
the thing to know about the second one is that it takes the best song from the first one and plays variations on it roughly twenty different times. this is fundamentally what the movie is emotionally and as a story, also.
it's a miracle 28 Weeks Later came out as competently-crafted and not franchise-sinkingly bad as it did when it was directed by a total nobody and also not written by Alex Garland
Get a grip. Sexual violence is part and parcel of war. An act of war. We have a number of real, global examples of this that have developed since the first film, not to mention the whole of human history.
A woman was allowed to choose her painless death when not being held back by her husband 😌
But also the positive mom energy and women helping women despite differences while a man would rather kill the infected woman
Not saying its THE main theme as Garlands writing of women is...lacking
The 'expense' of women is always difficult (just for me to abhor/understand) since there is a lot of injustice historically and currently to women. Is he reflecting, commentating or merely displaying a narrative trope? Note, I don't have an answer and would have to re-examine with footnotes to try.
So does his treatment of women differ to that of men in this usage? As in, since people are vehicles, how is his representation of them as vehicles for narrative progression different? I am thinking in regards to Ex Machina, Annihilation and 28 days. I think your point is worth exploring.
No - but a piece would have to be making a specific comment on women’s silence or lack of community to be described as feminist.
I think I understand the tinge of feminist themes, in care, and gendered relationship and community dynamics, but I still don’t think I would describe that as feminist.
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The second one is pretty shallow and cruel.
i dont think we respond to crises like zombie fic usually proposes but our worst impulses are dramatized in zombie fic for sure
"It hasn't even been a full month and they're already crawling the walls to rape someone"
It doesn’t pass the Bechdel test. The main characters are men.
Birth maybe?
Illness and caring?
A woman in leadership?
But also the positive mom energy and women helping women despite differences while a man would rather kill the infected woman
Not saying its THE main theme as Garlands writing of women is...lacking
I think I understand the tinge of feminist themes, in care, and gendered relationship and community dynamics, but I still don’t think I would describe that as feminist.
If it's only feminist because of how much it sucks to be a woman, then you're only interested in jerking off over how enlightened you think you are.
Is it a feminist film? No. Doesn’t have some feminist themes? If you squint.