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A 5 page essay that analyzes the 2002 film 28 Days Later, Fox Searchlight Pictures, directed by Danny Doyle, written by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald. The writer argues that this film is a nightmare of the first quality that expresses contemporary Western paranoia in regards to the idea that a new, possibly manufactured, plague could wipe out humanity. While this movie can be taken as a grim prediction of things to come, it can also be seen as an allegorical expression of the Cold War, which suggests a more fortuitous future if humanity manages to keep its head and negotiate, once again, the tricky line between vigilance and paranoia that eventually resulted in victory for the West. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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aspirations of their cultural audience. 28 Days Later, a 2002 film from Fox Searchlight Pictures, directed by Danny Doyle, written by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald, is a
nightmare of the first quality that expresses contemporary Western paranoia in regards to the idea that a new, possibly manufactured, plague could wipe out humanity. While this movie can be
taken as a grim prediction of things to come, it can also be seen as an allegorical expression of the Cold War, which suggests a more fortuitous future if humanity
manages to keep its head and negotiate, once again, the tricky line between vigilance and paranoia that eventually resulted in victory for the West. The opening scenes of the
film present the setup to the nightmare, which is when a group of animal rights activists break into a laboratory and find a group of caged chimps who are being
bombarded with images of ultra violence. True to their ideals, the animals right activists release the chimps who immediately turn on their rescuers. The chimps are infected with a manufactured
virus that causes a psychotic, uncontrollable rage. Furthermore, the virus can be spread by even the slightest contact with the blood of a victim. The film then cuts to, of
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hospital. While Jim was unconscious, it is clear
that disaster has struck. In a manner similar to the classic horror film Night of the Living Dead, Jim is soon running for his life from infected survivors who are
intent on his destruction simply as a means of expressing their rage. In the manner that film noir expressed the fears and paranoia of the Cold War era, the
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