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Culture After 28 Years
There’s more than one virus in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s Latest
From the moment that trailer dropped I was deliriously excited to see 28 Years Later. 28 Days is one of my favourite films of all time and inspired me to make short films as a late-teen/early-twentysomething. While I have run hot and cold with Director Danny Boyle’s output over the years (despite being a Beatles Mega Fan, Yesterday held no appeal to me) I’ve loved basically all of Alex Garland’s movies since this first outing, so I came into 28 years with high hopes and certain expectations.
Now, I pride myself on being pretty media literate so judging from the trailer and some interviews I felt like I had the gist of the movie before I went in, but I was dead wrong. 28 years subverted my expectations throughout. It didn’t have the same impact as the original but then, I don’t think it was trying to be the same thing, instead it was asking far more profound questions than its prequel in a very different way. And I don’t think everyone is going to like it. My wife certainly didn’t. But we’ll get to that. I feel like (much like Garland’s Men) I’m going to have spend a lot of time defending the reasons why I like this movie so much.
28 Years Later isn’t a zombie movie. 28 Days sort of is, but also isn’t, hence why it changed the genre, but…
