28 Days Later
Watched the film 28 days later last night – it’s fantastic. An amazingly well written story, and overall quite horrifying. They filmed it using digital cameras rather than film – which allowed them to operate and setup / break down much more rapidly, so they could get sections of london and the M1 etc shut down briefly for filming. It’s amazing to see wesminster bridge, the M1 and all these other places I’ve spent time – completely and utterly empty. It really sets the scene for the film – one of my favourite bits was the “That must be Manchester” line. They’re driving along a deserted M1 and after the line is delivered the camera pans up the road slowly until you see the entire expanse of what was once Manchester (not at all a little town) smoking and burning – nothing left but flaming rubble. One of the characters makes the comment about there being no fire crews to stop the blaze and of course she’s right – the whole city burned because nobody was there to stop what was likely a small fire of the sort usually put out every day or two.
Makes you think – in the little documentary about the making of (I love DVD special features!) they talked a fair bit about the realities of this. Did you know a group of scientists not so long ago created an entirely synthetic strain of polio virus – using only information from the internet.? The information age certainly has a second edge…
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