Just watched Warm Bodies. It is a solid movie, that's what I would say. It basically has every essential part of a typical storyline. there is an intro, build-up, a climax and a happy ending. On the plus side, there is humour too. But throughout the movie, I just can't shake off the tendency to compare it with twilight, especially the lead actress looks so much like Bella.
After some recherche, the lead actress is Teresa Palmer. She is like the younger sister of Kristen Stewart, a more joyful, prettier version of Kristen Stewart. The funny thing is that Teresa is actually older than Kristen. I am just glad that Teresa instead of Kristen got the role in this "better than Twilight" movie. And yes, if the world is divided into either hating or loving the movie Twilight, I would certainly be on the hating side. Not like the six packs or sparkling body challenges my masculinity thus makes me dislike the movie, it is just because of the shitty storyline. It is so unfair to many other good writers, that Stephenie Meyer gets so much fame because of such a low quality romance storyline. Personally I haven't read the books, so I have no idea how her style of writing and how good she did in the book. But the movies are just bad, bad enough to kill my desire to hit the books. Especially after the recent movie, The Host, it completely shuts down all my hope for her books, and I automatically assume her books are just as bad as the movies.
Another good side of the movie is that it evokes the question of how to define a human in my mind. I don't know whether it is intentional in movie or not. It just reminds me of a class discussion about that through another movie, I Robot. The class discussion just brought me a perspective to the movie and also introduced me to Isaac Asimov. Throughout the human history, we have been enlarging the definition of human being, like fighting against slavery, that slaves should be considered as human too and deserves basic human rights, that slave is not a commodity. I am glad to live in this moment of history, when the majority has the idea of that everybody is equal regardless races and skin colour. But majority means there is some form of slavery still exist somewhere in our world.
As technology is getting more and more advanced, the robots we create also getting more and more sophisticated, how if one day robots are so human like, and able to simulate human feelings and all other stuffs that previously we thought only humans are able to do? Should robots be considered human too? If human is created by God, we create these robots and consider them to human too, does that mean we are God too? What if we humans are just some lab experiments, created not by God but by some aliens with more advanced technology than us, like what the movie Prometheus suggested? All these questions are indeed very deep and philosophical. In this movie, Warm Bodies, it actually gave us a few criteria of human though, like heartbeat and ability to feel pain and dream.
The movie also gave people a very optimistic view about the ability of human beings to accept changes and differences. In the movie, it seems like all the good zombies are accepted into human society in literally overnight. The reality is, in our real world, we humans don't like changes because changes are sometimes very scary. From historical point of view, this kind of changes with such a huge amplitude, like the change of mindset, often come with violence. Just take the example of slavery and discrimination, it takes ages and countless bloodshed to change people's mindset. Sadly even until now, discrimination and slavery is still going on somewhere in our world.
Anyway it was fun to watch this movie!
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