Twenty Eight Days Later

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Movie Analysis: Twenty Eight Days Later


What is this movie trying to communicate? I think the movie suggests that one simple act can have a domino effect and can cause irreversible damage’s. This movie also made it clear that people feel safer in numbers than alone and that you’re more likely to survive if you have people on your side. The film made the audience realize that a deadly infection, such as rage, is almost impossible to avoid, destroy and survive.
In my opinion the most critical event, at the Cambridge Primate Research Center where the infected monkey’s are let loose and the infection is spread, is the prime example that one persons actions can cause mass destruction. If this one event did not occur then there wouldn’t have been an outbreak of rage. This leads to the fact that the people that were brought together by this would have never met, people would be going about their lives as usual and maybe Jim would have never come out of him coma. If these monkeys were never let loose there’s a possibility they could have found a cure for rage. Another example is that if Jim, Selena and Hannah had never experienced the torture they endured they wouldn’t have realized their reason for living, which I think they realized in the end. These along with others are all effects that would have never taken place if not for the animal rights activists who let the infected monkey’s out in the first place. This brings about the issue of people who think they are helping when in fact they are simply causing

problems for others. It’s not a matter of if they knew or not, either way it caused a whole other problem that no one could control.
The most obvious example of people feeling safe in numbers is that all the non-infected characters in the movie were always looking for others to help them combat the infected. Jim even admitted to Selena that the only reason he was alive was because of her and ...