Fair. It's spawned 3 sequels so far: 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later, and 28 Years Later: Temple of Bone. They progressively show how the world outside of Britain did and did not have to weather the Rage Virus. (Hint: It took time, but eventually, it infects most of the world, rather like poisonous political views.) I believe there are books, or more likely graphic novels they were adapted from, if that's more your speed.
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#PennedPossibilities 827—Would your characters survive a zombie apocalypse in your universe?'nThe zombie narrative relies on elite fears of slave uprisings, and is inherently racist. -
#PennedPossibilities 827—Would your characters survive a zombie apocalypse in your universe?'nThe zombie narrative relies on elite fears of slave uprisings, and is inherently racist.Might be a deep cut.
28 Days Later is a film about a "zombie" outbreak in Britain. The zombies are actually humans suffering from the "Rage" virus. It travels by blood, and one drop will infect you permanently. No one outside of Britain knows what's going on in the rest of the world, but its assumed the virus escaped and infected the world. However, in one of the last scenes of the movie, we see an airplane (looks like a commercial airliner, but might have been a military plane not painted up in colors) fly over one of the protags who had been taken out into the woods to be shot/left for the "infected" to be found. Seeing the plane, and realizing that there's a way off, the protag gets so angry at the soldiers who are holding the two other survivors (both women they intend to rape), that he can now pass among the infected without being attacked.
Basically, I'm paralleling your comment about not being American as if somehow America was walled off and is suffering its own little zombie outbreak while the rest of the world during Covid was just a placid sea of rationality. Honestly, since I was locked down here in the US, I have no actual idea what the rest of the world was going thru during Covid. I have no idea if they think its still going on like it is here, despite everyone here being so tired of living responsibly that they'd rather pretend nothing is wrong. We can't trust our news media anymore, if we ever could, and so the only news I get is from those online I know and trust not to be lying about things.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only survivor is a world gone mad, except I do know that about half the nation feels the same as I do, and the other half is busy pretending they speak for 95% of everyone because land votes or something, except their states are so barren that their entire state population is smaller than the population of the metropolitan area I live in and I'm not even in a big city.
Today has got me really going down a zombie apocalypse rabbit hole. If any of this is offensive, I'm sorry. I'm not really in a good headspace at the moment. I started writing for the prompts and got distracted with reality parallels, and some of my own writing themes. As I said a week or so ago, I'm really good at grimdark because its too easy for me to fall into that way of thinking.
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#PennedPossibilities 827—Would your characters survive a zombie apocalypse in your universe?'nThe zombie narrative relies on elite fears of slave uprisings, and is inherently racist.So you're pulling a 28 Days Later.
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#PennedPossibilities 827—Would your characters survive a zombie apocalypse in your universe?'nThe zombie narrative relies on elite fears of slave uprisings, and is inherently racist.Classist, maybe, but calling it racist ignores the class aspect, and seems narrow to me. The rest seems spot on, except the Covid point. COVID showed 48% of Americans would do anything they could to try to infect one another so long as they could own the libs. Antivaxxers, antimatter, superspreader events, social distancing violators, and people intentionally coughing on those trying to follow guidelines. We're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and they're the far right.