What 28 DAYS LATER Is Really About
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- With the announcement of 28 Years Later, I had to revisit one of my favorite all-time movies: 28 Days Later. Rewatching it today, it was just as gritty, terrifying, and strangely hopeful as I remembered. As a bonus, it’s also filled with themes that are incredibly relevant today. Give the video a listen then share your thoughts in the comments!
0:00 A Real (and Surreal) Apocalypse
8:35 A Psychological Virus
17:03 The Intoxication of Rage
28 Days Later and Saw inspired Piano Background music by THRLL - • Saw | 28 Days Later | ... - บันเทิง
Danny Boyle actually requested that Manchester not be on fire for that shot but the local council just couldnt manage it .
😂😂 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Yeah it started in Moss Side and you could see it from Halifax!
@@craigvarey9230 first time.i seen it I thought it was govan in Glasgow after rangers lost another title 🤣
Wow, a film critique/exploration that isn't just going through it beat by beat and saying what happens. I didn't know anyone still made these.
lol. So annoying to click on a link where they do that. There are countless "critique" channels that just go scene by scene and forget to add anything of their own.
Indeed🎉
One of the best soundtrack songs ever in this movie . In the house. In a heartbeat.
Been stuck in my head for about two decades now haha
My husband plays this soundtrack occasionally at his desk while he works. Creeps me out every time!
I loved the subtle hints that 28 Days Later dropped regarding the plot throughout the movie, also. For example, in the opening scene, when the scientist tells one of the activists that the chimps are infected with Rage, the activitist looks down at the ground with a worried expression on his face, as though he knows exactly what that means. This, coupled with the fact that the group of activists used an access card to enter the facility, could mean that that particular activist was an employee there, which is how the group knew about the chimps and were able to enter so easily. The fact that the movie never mentions any of this and leaves it to audience interpretation is a sign of fantastic writing.
Birthday caird pish!!
Indeed it is🎉
@@user-bx1tb3yv4nthe original screen draft had this as the original plot that a disgruntled employee turns on the lab and sets them free but it was never fully cleared up and re shot with fully different dialogue and full re script that's why he looks like he was in the know during the opening scene
Plus the one of the activists is actually a student at the university where the lab is in Cambridge so that was the continued then redrafted part about the guy looking like he knew
It's also in the novel comic as well which has a different ending where Jim dies to create a cure using his blood
This was done in 28weeks later with dons wife and his son but totally butchered because Boyle and garland wasn't involved
@@MiloDooley can you remind me again what they were trying to research in the first place in the comic? (I read that a looonngggg time ago)
Funny how the infected all get along and never rage at each other.
The infection probably has some sort of “marker” making the infected largely docile towards each other. Think of wwz how the zombies don’t attack each other or sick people but swarm onto uninfected people
They're all in the same cult.
Why would they? The infected don't need to spread the infection to each other - it's the base principle for all zombie/infection movies. Clearly I think they are all part of a greater genre.
Until the Israel thing
@@bunyan6101 wtf are you and the “they’re in the same cult” guy talking about?😂😂😂😂
That’s what London looked like in week one of lockdown when I flew back in from Barbados. The railway stations were almost empty at eight a.m. on a Friday morning and I had a train carriage to myself. Very weird.
Yeah. Was really surreal time we lived through
In my opinion looking back, I think the moral of story is that there are worse things than infected. The military guys were downright vile. At least the infected don't know any better.
Agreed. The military guys represented premeditated evil. Very different from the infected.
This is what I always thought too!
They were also human and weak. They gave into human frailties and temptations like greed, lust, jealousy, violence. They lost their moral compass, which the military had provided but when that institution failed, there was nothing left.
I think their behavior is a good example of why humans need a guiding moral force that does not come from institutions such as government.
It could be religion or philosophy But the soldiers behavior shows what happens when all we have are external human controls to guide our behavior.
As a former British army soldier. Our officer would never act like their officer. The dinner service tho is a great touch as that’s what officers really do each meal. But what’s most unrealistic about the army part. I doubt we would fail to first execute him. Then get over run by one man. When theirs danger all around none stop you form you own rage virus. AdrenlIne 10 years from Afghanistan is still pumped for me. But I get the writing of the soldiers when the girls came. In Afghanistan 4 months on the front fighting daily in a small check point, without seeing a woman except the local you gain a different level of woman wanting. But I doubt after 28 days you would decide to rebuild Britain with two girls. Soldiers aren’t just evil like it makes out. It would a lot more people against the officers plan. Even tho he promised us woman. But it’s end of the world in their mind. Killing reach night I get why the officer promised them woman. The level of stress would be insane. But it’s been days since the check point had gone and he would of been thinking no one’s going to turn up
Also soldiers are very unserious in basic tasks, making them look childish. But working all day and the bond you grow. It’s banter and is positive. Because look once the attack came it was serious and felt with
Even with 28 years later coming, I think they probably know that this film will still never be topped, at least in my opinion. Some of the shots in this film, are some of those ‘you were either smart enough to do that in the moment, or it would/will never have been done by anybody else’. No matter what zombie film has come after this one, they’ve never topped a 20 second sequence of Jim saying ‘hello’ to a crowd of corpses followed by two infected perching up and looking DIRECTLY at him, jaws wide open in almost a state of shock that he’s even there. The only scene in a zombie film that rivals 28 days later is probably the opening scene to 28 weeks, which was directed by Danny Boyle but he was mainly a producer, which is probably why the rest of the film is kinda ass. It was almost as if Danny Boyle was like ‘I never got to show audiences what it would’ve been like before Jim woke up’ and was then like ‘right, now you can proceed with this shit contrived story’ 😂
I hated the sequel. Terribly miscast and not nearly enough depth amidst the violence.
The original is extraordinary. It absolutely set the standard and raised the bar beyond what can ever be replicated.
Yes indeed
World War Z and all the other Korean zombie movies that came out recently are partly to blame for why 28 years later will not be successful. The zombie genre market is over- bloated rn
Amen!
I think 28 mins later, with Danny at the helm, watching what Jim slept through would be something worth watching.
28 years later's coming soon!Cant wait👍
Haha 28 days later is one of my absolute favorite movies. And had no idea that a 28 years later is in production till I read your comment. Hope it won't be a disappointment like 28 weeks later ( except the opening scene)
28 hours b4
@@princesssolace4337 28 minutes (short film) 28 seconds(til tok teaser)
@@sultanaljuhani1571will be good as good as the first one.
Theyre starting to film it.
Danny Boyle/ Alex Garland.
28 months first…
Very well done! I saw this in the theater and I was absolutely blown away. It's an exquisite and deeply moral film in so many ways, beyond the horror.
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Im definitely interested in your take of 28 weeks later 👍🐾💜
Nice dive into that incredible film. I was not even aware that there was a sequel on the way but I look forward to it greatly. However I will say I thought 28 Weeks Later was a pretty reasonable successor. Certainly not up to the standard of the original but still pretty immersive.
28 weeks later suffers from a very annoying problem, which is ‘try to top the first with absurd action and the introduction to immunity’, instead of trying to add to the first film. Imagine you keep the opening scene, but have John be the main character of the film, instead of him being infected in the stupidest way imaginable. U.S military have this one single immune woman, yeah let’s give John THE HUSBAND, access to that exact facility with no armed security to deny him 😂. Imagine John going through the film, maybe even lies to the kids, and is then met with another scenario of ‘save my kids or save myself’. I think you can clearly tell that Danny Boyle directed the opening sequence, given the fact that it’s a 10/10 scene. 28 weeks later feels like every other ‘zombie’ film which is a letdown in and of itself
Last night my gf was telling me something that I can’t remember, but whatever she said, she used the word infected. So naturally I didn’t listen to what she said and I blurted out the first movie quote that came to mind instead and yelled “infected wiv wot?!?!?” ….Rage. Lol she looked at me like 😑 perfect timing for you to put out this video lol
This analysis is great. Thank you my friend. You give movies a whole new dimention.
I was a bicycle courier in my life. I got run over by a car twice. I do love films that are set five minutes in the future. You should watch out and be the better person
he would not be able to stand up after being in a coma the long. nevermind how hungry and dehydrated he would be after being left in the hospital for at least 3-5 days.
Got to allow a bit of leeway or we won’t have a film.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Better writing and creativity solves it: When we find main character in the room, he is being tended to by a cancer patient, surrounded by supplies and locked in the room. Over the next few sequestered days, he finds out what happened to a degree, that he has been receiving rehab in bed per doc orders before evacuation, and gains his strength. Cancer pt dies and he leaves the room. Took five seconds.
The scene inside the church when the two zombies pop up amongst the piled up dead after Jim says, “Hello,” has always stuck with me as truly terrifying.
Agreed, and his reaction is perfect.
Yes sir. I remember me and my buddy going to this movie at the theater. And I didn't see any commercials or trailers for it before going. I kept asking him what is it about and he didn't seem to know either he said I think it's about the apocalypse or something. Being a huge George Romero and resident evil fan I was pleasantly surprised and it scared the Sh!!t out of me when I saw those zombies pop up in the church. It caught me off guard. But once I realized we are watching a zombie movie I was mad excited. That scene is iconic
Bro your analysis is bomb. I subbed.
Glad I found your channel. Profound take on one of my favorite movies.
Wow......what a superb and amazingly profound analysis of this movie! Spectacular job tying in the relevance of it's message about our current society and elaborating on how all of it's themes regarding anger, rage, love, power/control, and morality transcend past this fictional story and straight into the real world and each of our own personal lives. It's by far the best commentary I've ever seen on the movie "28 days later." It gave me goosebumps, and it put tears in my eyes to watch.
I hope the upcoming sequel is going to be good.
There already a sequel
28 years later is soon to be release
This is the first I've heard about it 😮
I'm now VERY excited.
Let's face it. If it's not Danny Boyle directing, it won't be.
28 Weeks later was a decent sequel
28 Months should be made!!!!
Jim is one of the most underrated characters in this type of movie, so often the people left just don’t seem to get it or are idiotic tough guys and it always costs them…. I’ve always found that a bit simplistic, Jim brought a new dimension to that type of character and it made for great movie.
Great analysis and adds to many of the reviews out there. Excellent work!
The GYBE song, East Hastings, was so perfect for this film.
Love this fantastic analysis! And yes would love your take on 28 weeks later! :)
This is such a good analysis of a brilliant movie.
This is one of my top three favorite movies. I loved the video, a wonderful film study that brought things up I hadn't considered!
Thank you my friend.
Hope you’re well?
Thank you! Doing well, hope the same for you!
@@OneTakeVids 👍🏻
Great review and summary.
They almost called it 29 days later setting it on a Leap Year in February. Unfortunately, that year was not a Leap year and they decided, just go with 28 days later and make it a non-leap year in February.
I would be interested in a 28 weeks later retrospective. I agree though. Its not a great sequel but I don't hate it. Great vid. (this one not 28 weeks later lol)
An early contender for "Greatest movie of the century". Great vid. Chimp watching TV and Roger Waters "amused to death"
“I wont play it here”
*Proceeds to play the piano in the background*
Hey it’s a license free 28 days later INSPIRED song 😄
This was awesome. Thank you.
This was a fantastic video!
When you mentioned the Sierra Leone civil war I felt sick. I remember seeing tires set alight with petrol around people's necks. It was nicknamed 'The Necklace'
My God! What one man can do to another...!
It's also how Nelson Mandela punished those who'd crossed or failed him.
What a lovely guy
@@ruledtrendy5066 Really? I didn't know that. How the hell did he become president. Tbh I find it hard to believe so like a free thinking man I'll do some research. Thanks for giving me something to do
@@craigvarey9230 the truth about him isn't really talked about. For example he was asked to renounce violence. If you don't know, he'd been involved with bombings that killed men, women and children.
All he had to do was renounce violence and he was offered freedom. He refused and stayed in prison an extra ten years
@@ruledtrendy5066 I honestly did not know any of this. And I, probably like millions of others, took it at face value that he was a peaceful man. I had no particular interest in politics and definitely not foreign politics because frankly politics is a game full of self serving liars.
I don't know if you're British like myself but I gave up on politics years ago. My father and his generation fought in WW2 and I was born when he was 48. It saddens me, the sacrifices they made to ensure we grew up free. Sometimes I wonder what they fought for when one looks at the state of the United Kingdom now. And (please don't think that I am racist here) I think a lot of the trouble we're in now began with a large influx of non-skilled non-English speakers. I assure you that I am not racist. I welcome people, whatever nationality, as long as they can and do contribute.
Getting back to our discussion at hand...I will certainly research more about N M and his earlier life. Thankyou again. I do enjoy engaging with people who actually comment relevantly on YT and not just show how unintelligent they are by making sarcastic and stupid remarks.
I hope you can find the relevant information. Try using a different search engine to Google.
The last time I looked into Mandela was about ten years ago. The information on Google has er... changed a lot since then.
Rather than tell the truth they're telling a narrative.
Terrific video!
I feel " Girl with all the gifts" sits so well next to this film ..to me anyway..
Excellent, thanks
28 Weeks later is problematic because there, the infected are pretty clearly undead zombies. After the scene where the helicopter slices through a horde by flying pitched forward and chopping them up with its rotors (uhhh... yeah) the survivors walk through the debris field afterwards and see body parts continuing to twitch and try to move. Very Romero-esque.
Incredible film,especially the beginning of the film.
Some great acting from cillian Murphy’s and Brendan Gleason aswell.
28 weeks later is equally as frighting too.
Great job on this one.
Excellent analysis of the film and of the human condition.
Well done.
Thank you 🙏
@@OneTakeVids Yezzir, thank you.
Great video. Subbed
This is still my favorite movie of all time.
Greatest horror film of all time at the very least. Damn good cinema. I’ll never forget 11 year old me asking my grandmother to take me to see it and being absolutely terrified and intrigued in such a profound manner
It’s one of my favourites.
Really excellent breakdown.
Are you telling me I can’t hear the song during this video? Is the video so iconic that my brain is putting in the song for me? You said you couldn’t play the song but I swore I could hear it under the narration lol. In any case, you prolly could made a decent cover of the song if you know your way around a piano or fl studio lol
Haha I do not my way around a piano (my piano teacher in 6th grade actually told me I was the worst piano player she’s ever seen), BUT a talented musician did put up a royalty free song inspired by 28 Days Later and Saw which at times, sounds very similar to the 28 Days Later theme! (Linked to his channel in the description if you’re curious)
Actually in a infections style infected/zombie scenario the store would be untouched 28 days after first contact until complete collapse who would have the time and ability to raid a shop while the streets are filled with millions of fast and aggressive infected in cities like Manchester London Glasgow ect there would be no chance or near on no chance to actually raid or take a load of stock without being either caught or attacked
Plus there was breif Marshall law period during the collapse so if you were out on the street you were shot dead and burned
The waking up from a coma to discover the chaos is similar to the beginning of ‘The Day of the Triffids’.
that is interesting because the walking dead begins in the same way, and the comic came out at the same time as 28 days, so i wondered who influenced who, and you have the answer
It's a fairly standard trope.
Realistically I'd say Day of the Triffids influenced both films alongside zombie horror in general.
It's a full on rip off
And walking dead
Very much so.
I love this film. Back when originality was still alive in the film industry. 19 years ago was 2005.
Id also like to mention the great soundtrack choice in godspeed you black emporer. It really sets the mood. Personally I'm not a huge fan of the 2nd half of the movie when the people become the monsters. The 1st half is my fav
I just found out there's a new one "28 Years Later" currently filming and is due out in 2025.
The dreamy and strange feeling of this film is something I wish I could experience again for the first time
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Gain of function research
Fauci Ouchie
Hey, hey. There's no such thing as that, and you are incredibly transphobic for saying it. Transphobic and racist. Homophobic? Yes, homophobic too.
They warned us in advance what would happen BUT it wasn’t as lethal as they thought in real life.
@sheriashley7692 The paranoia itself created by the government and state sponsored media complex were deadly and it still lingers to this day in certain segments of society.
@@peteywheatstraws4909 hell yeah bro. I was talking to friends last night about this. How ppl could've been friends for 10 yrs but this ended their friendship. I got friends who got vaxxed and friends who didn't, I treat em the same. Whatever happened to "my body, my choice"? Oh its ok to kill a baby but not get a vaccine? Now I know why Jesus talked about hypocrites so much in the gospels - they are truly the worst ppl.
28 days later was my absolute favorite movie
It scared me in the most realistic ways!
Can not wait to see sequel
You forget sir in the show it's only been 28 days so there would be food in stores. And for the solders in time of need they try to keep things as normal as possible.
Are you kidding a metropolitan area in a without rule of law situation, grocery stores would be picked clean in hours not days
@@IIISWILIII
No because the evacuation was so sudden.I do wonder though how the shop electrics were still working?
The Courage to be Disliked is a book that speaks to how to manage anger in communication.
One of the best Sci fi films especially for its close relationship to reality
Even listening to you re-tell it my skin crawls. I knew at the time this movie was HUGE. Was let down enough to have only seen 28moL twice. You should do a walk thru of it(28mo). Maybe I missed something.
passion without precision is chaos
28 years later
One of the greatest movies ever.
The best virus/zombie movie ever made in modern times … IMO
“I haven’t got any bullets. Don’t leave me!”
That prequel: “28 Days” with Sandra Bullock… WHAT A LET-DOWN. NOT ONE ZOMBIE SCENE! 😂🤡🤣
it was very gripping, I'll give it that, but it just seemed like a frothy adventure story to me, with a bit of horror mixed in. the zombies could really be any disaster that's befallen this world, or an alien invasion of some kind. compare to Romero's films where he documents the gradual deterioration of human relationships, and the true horror is the realisation of how easily people can descend into savagery. there really isn't any of that kind of depth in 28DL and you leave it feeling entertained yet somehow unfulfilled
Great!
This movie was perfection. The acting was solid. I’m so glad for the alternate ending. Very believable given the crazy COVID years.
to me this is the benchmark zombie-themed movie because it's more about the human condition rather than mindless slaughter.
2 hours ago?
I just re-watched the movie!
I had no clue this movie was that deep
I always thought it would be cool to write a short story from the perspective of someone who was bitten. All the way to rage mode and how it felt. An unimaginable crave filled with so much anger. Feeling part of a larger group and a tiny feeling way down under of being accepted ..Sharing this animalistic rage as one large organism. An energy of lightening coursing through the veins ... Or something like that
It could be called ‘The climate activist’
@@redpillnibbler4423 Lol.... totally! Good call
i liked 28 weeks later a lot more then this film. the soundtrack really sold it for me. that slowly building steady beat that gets really heavy when anything serious happens was really awesome
I liked 28 days later BECAUSE it wasn't the same "dead zombie" model. It was easier to suspend disbelief, then the reanimated dead zombie model. A "rage virus" like rabies seems more believable.
Great video
It shows how the world works 😊💜🐾👋👍
28 days later is about a month.
I remember the movie and have it along with dawn of the dead these two movies were supposed to come out on the same day but somebody complained 😢😂 i thought it was better than dawn of the dead in some ways 😮
Plot hole how tf did a bunch of civies manage to operate and maintain an sa80 a2 no chance ill have to imagine they never had to fire it
The city wasn't closed, his trek over Westminster Bridge was filmed around 4am in mid summer.
never said the city was closed listen comprehend
Couldn’t imagine this being filmed empty with real traffic being held back these days. London feels so much busier these days then it does.
Watching it the first time today
We need a 28 months later before 2028
I loved this analysis - the best one I’ve seen yet! I hope the new 28 movies will be as potent.
it's about 2 hours....thank you, I'll let myself out...
I like the better as the movie”Day of the Triffids”
Both are great films in their own right .
I looked at the main guy and questioned if it was Cillian because of his eyes. I watched 28 Days and 28 Weeks reviews every time I stumble upon them and Ididn't realize at all.
I now know 28 days before would be a tedious watch
It’s about how silly drug rehab is which also is 28 days
I LOVED this movie but was confused by the ending....I never knew Jim saw a plane...
I think it's about addiction.
The trash strewn abandoned streets are cleaner than any public street in any 2024 California city. 😂
ooooooooo, so edgy
This is one of my fave films. Great cast and I feel it almost foretells the future with Covid 19. I feel that was definitely engineered in a lab; released on the world and then the coverup happened. And still is. Not as deadly as the Rage virus 🦠 but still pretty nasty!
Genius steals is true of this movie, fantastic movie
The soldiers message as former British soldier. Is that power corrupts.
Is that what it says at back of the dvd box?
All we need is love
Boyles over!
I can’t watch this movie for more than 5 minutes because of the early 2000s digital cameras they used. Looks like British TV show quality video.
Cambodian currency is still pretty much useless - OK for small purchases but for everything else they use the greenback. Didn't see any zombies when I was there, but it can still be a scary place at night.
28 Days Later is one of my all time favorites. 28 Weeks Later is an absolute mess. Do NOT waste your time.