Mike70
15-Jan-2009, 02:48 AM
that has always bothered me. ok. most of you know i am a bit of an egghead so here goes:
first off i love 28 days later. i think it is a great movie, so my criticism isn't meant to be some sort of giant shit on the flick. it is just one of those things that can bother you, even about a movie you love.
i found it odd that the soldiers would be trying to see how long it would take for an infected to die of starvation when a person would die from dehydration within 2 or 3 days. faster if they are in a hot environment or running a fever.
sooooo, by the time jim awakens from his coma, all of the infected should've been long dead through lack of fluids. to my knowledge this is never discussed in the movie and the infected aren't shown eating or drinking anything. they are shown in the last throes of starvation at the end.
even though the virus is simply called the Rage virus, it seems to have some connection to rabies (though rabies is spread through saliva and the rage virus seems to have several vectors).
the rest here is sheer speculation on my part so bear with me: one of the symptoms of rabies is hydrophobia. a severe aversion to water. so if this virus is related to rabies it could actually cause the people suffering from it to avoid any intake of fluids, thereby hastening their demise from dehydration even faster.
like i said, just one of those things that's always sort of bothered me.
first off i love 28 days later. i think it is a great movie, so my criticism isn't meant to be some sort of giant shit on the flick. it is just one of those things that can bother you, even about a movie you love.
i found it odd that the soldiers would be trying to see how long it would take for an infected to die of starvation when a person would die from dehydration within 2 or 3 days. faster if they are in a hot environment or running a fever.
sooooo, by the time jim awakens from his coma, all of the infected should've been long dead through lack of fluids. to my knowledge this is never discussed in the movie and the infected aren't shown eating or drinking anything. they are shown in the last throes of starvation at the end.
even though the virus is simply called the Rage virus, it seems to have some connection to rabies (though rabies is spread through saliva and the rage virus seems to have several vectors).
the rest here is sheer speculation on my part so bear with me: one of the symptoms of rabies is hydrophobia. a severe aversion to water. so if this virus is related to rabies it could actually cause the people suffering from it to avoid any intake of fluids, thereby hastening their demise from dehydration even faster.
like i said, just one of those things that's always sort of bothered me.