{"id":3473,"date":"2009-02-10T00:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2009-02-13T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:04:13","slug":"28-days-laterdanny-boyle-2002uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002): UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Joel Pedersen<\/a>. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"28 28 Days Later<\/em><\/a> is a horror film with a hauntingly soft soundtrack.\u00a0 It dwells on a future “what-if” \u00a0scenario where a massive virus spreads like wildfire infecting people across England, and demonstrates what fear can do to tear a society down.<\/p>\n

Fear can cause humans to turn on each other and\u00a0leave their traditions and values by the wayside. However,\u00a0 in this film it is this very attitude–of selfish actions motivated by fear–that acccelerates\u00a0the world’s \u00a0sitution\u00a0turn from bad to worse.<\/p>\n

The film begins like a nightmare. One where you wake all alone completely naked…in a hospital (which mind you is probably the scariest setting even in the day) and there is no one to be found. Jim (Cillian Murphy) has no luck finding anyone. The film has some great shots of Jim trekking thought some really well known spots in England, yelling “hello” at the top of his lungs but with no response. This is most poignantly and painfully demonstrated by a graphic scene where the main character enters a church. A church is really nothing more than a building, but it has been honored by\u00a0people who preserve that area as socially- sanctioned sacred space.\u00a0 Here in this place that should be a haven for people from the outside world, a place where sick and weak people can turn for comfort, the main character finds people, sick people, beaten to death and strewn across the floor.<\/p>\n

Finally after running from the infected for a good amount of time, he finds help. Selena (Noamie Harris) and her friend Mark come to his rescue. They explain to Jim what has happened and the tragedies that have occurred while he was unconscious. Not knowing what to think or believe, he leads them to his parents’ house.\u00a0He soon\u00a0wishes that he\u00a0had\u00a0never woken up.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I am uncertain that I can reccomend this film and I say that not merely due to its graphic nature.\u00a0However this is probably due to my own\u00a0fear of scary movies.\u00a028 Days Later\u00a0<\/em>is a great example of Danny Boyle’s directing style.\u00a0 It also left me with a lot of food for thought in a very Lord of the Flies type manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Joel Pedersen. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival. 28 Days Later is a horror film with a hauntingly soft soundtrack.\u00a0 It dwells on a future “what-if” \u00a0scenario where a massive virus spreads like wildfire infecting people across England, and demonstrates what fear can do to tear a society down. Fear can cause humans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}