traslation from a italian reviewer. very positive!!
Zombie Revolution
Review of the film Survival of the Dead (2009)
ed Luciana Morelli
Romero brings us to the middle of a zombie-western set on an island surrounded by nature, but an enchanted land burdened by old and new conflicts, populated by dull men who persist in continuing the old personal feuds, heedless of the fact that the world is sinking in an incubator without end.
Few days have passed since the disease of 'dead heads' has begun to spread throughout the planet and nobody seems to know how to escape. The zombies are everywhere, military forces are in disarray, there are no rules or hierarchies. A handful of soldiers so decided to put 'own' and seek safety with their forces and take refuge in a safer place in the city. The perfect place, as suggested by a message issued on the internet by a gentleman of middle age, and Plum Island, an islet off the coast of dalawa, an oasis of outstanding natural beauty where the people know everyone and where it seems that zombies are not yet arrived. In fact the man who appears on video is the founder of O'Flynn, one of the two families that have always lived on the island and between which has been ongoing for years, a violent dispute. Exiled by his countrymen because they were accused of killing unscrupulous friends, relatives and neighbors-turned-zombie, Patrick O'Flynn will join the handful of soldiers to regain their lands and prevent the disease from spreading further. It matters little whether to die, this time permanently, must be the people with whom he spent his entire life, including his daughter. The strategy of the Muldoons, its fierce opponents, is to leave things open chains taking friends and family infected and living with them until the world has not invented a cure.
Romero did not spring, is unwilling and unable to leave his show, even if takes them up in the lagoon. It could not be his first zombie movie in history to land on the red carpet of the Film Festival and what's more even competition for the Golden Lion. We can say that Survival of the DeadSixth chapter of his epic about the undead, which began now more than forty years ago with the complaint it inherent socio-political Night of the Living DeadMarks a new era of zombie films in a broad sense but also in the strict sense. Yes, because the creative spark of Romero seems to have not been exhausted, as has happened to other authors of gender, so that the putative father of the 'dead heads' sets with this Survival of the Dead a new beginning (or a new order, depending on your point of view) for both the living and the dead, a year zero, which promises great, great things for the future.
There is also this time the social-political subtext in the best tradition romeriana and the scenario is not too different from its predecessors. George brings us to the middle of a zombie-western set on an island surrounded by nature, but an enchanted land burdened by old and new conflicts, populated by dull men who persist in continuing the old personal feuds, heedless of the fact that the world is sinking in an incubator without end. A microcosm of incivility in which the disease that is ravaging the world is exacerbated by old grievances that nobody is willing to forget to find the best way to 'survive'.
He could only come from him this revolutionary innovation, from which one of the monsters and undead knows more than anyone in the world, a filmmaker who has created, changed, modernized and made the undead evolve in tandem with the real world without never change too much in their basic characteristics, even aesthetic. Elegantly back Survival of the Dead is the confirmation that seventy played George A. Romero is still the same despite the infirmities. What is amazing is how over the decades has never changed its look polemic about the behavior of the masses, as there has never weakened his sensibilities or his attention, his biting irony and his desire to withdraw from the mental regression a world in disarray.
The universe of his living dead time changes in the opposite than real because Survival of the DeadFollowed the ideal narrative Diary of the Dead (in which a group of film students that we see in flashback filmed with his camera), it is fun to work analyzing the human condition today, showing weakness, greed, fear of losing the honor and possession of things rather than to lose the affections, the inability to adapt, to live together, the lack of tolerance and common sense even in the face of a disaster that will destroy all traces of humanity from the planet.
Survival of the Dead is in line with the latest chapters, but has the great merit of raising new questions and open up new scary scenarios, in short, laying the groundwork for at least two other films about zombies, brand new stories that Romero will tell us, hopefully soon, with his usual lucidity. Man regresses, the zombie moves, like the fantastic universe created by the legendary George.
Released: 10/09/2009
another mixed review.
not bad but relies onhe silly comedy vibe of the movie
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