I saw this movie with this interviewer, and concur completely with his evaluation! I was going to write a review, but his is spot on, so there is no point in my doing so...
About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
My theory is that the zombie trend is actually Gen X working through their childhood fears about Aids. It was a virus. It came from no where. It started out with a few people, and then on the nightly news, it got closer and closer till even that Ryan kid in Indiana had it! At first, we didn’t know what it was, how it spread, or if it would become more virulent. Once someone caught HIV, they were the walking dead–doomed to die in disgusting ways, yet on the move and spreading the infection. As adults, we understand what AIDS is, how it’s spread, why we’re not at risk, how we can treat it. But I think we forget how scary it was, in those first few years when it was everywhere and school assemblies warned us that it was coming for us. (Thank you very much, Kaiser Permenante!) Now it’s mostly a problem in Africa, but for a while there, it was like a zombie plague…..
That is an interesting idea! I do remember how worried we were when I was in high school, and we didn’t know for sure yet how contagious the disease was, or if it might become airborne, etc.
And Gen X is the one WRITING all these books and movies now…I think the YA lit/movies of a given time actually reflect the preceding generation’s fears. For instance, when we were young, nuclear holocaust stories were big…much bigger than Reagan/Gorbie would suggest…but perfectly inline with the traumas and fears of the generation before us…