Warm bodies

Just before I start this review I just want to say that I couldn't get on to the film club website, and the "sensible" thing to do would be to put it on blogger. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. :)

Warm Bodies is a mixture of comedy, After a zombie apocalypse, surviving humans build a wall to prevent corpses; zombies, from killing them. Corpses wander round aimlessly, barely able to open their mouths. The way that they portray the corpses, and how they move, eat, and kill makes this movie more frightening, thrilling, and realistic.

     Everything started with an outbreak of some kind of plague, and as the human population steadily shrank, the corpses were getting stronger. R, a zombie is the main character in the story.  The way the actor (Nicholas Hoult) plays the love struck zombie makes the audience feel sorry for R, because all R wants is to be human again.

    When R finds a group of friends scavenging for medicine, R and his hunting pack find Julie (the colonels daughter), Perry; Julie’s boyfriend and various others. Corpses don’t bleed and are difficult to kill, but as soon as R sees Julie, he is immobilised. After killing Perry, R eats his brains and relives all of Perry’s memories with Julie. It makes the audience torn between what is wrong and what is right, and although was doing something bad, the audience can’t help feeling sympathetic towards him.

  At the end of the film, though, R’s love for Julie made him live again and cure the other corpses. Although they were cured, Bonies, skeletal corpses who have lost all sense of feeling cannot be cured with love and are killed, regretfully.

Although somebody might look at the warm bodies trailer and call it a zombie or horror movie, throughout the story you start to realise that its so much more. This clever plot leaves you walking every step of the way with the characters, as well as you getting to see both sides of the story and not just R’s view.

     When everything is almost normal in the end of the film, I think it shows that something like that could actually happen, and the only way everyone can stop it is by working together.

Ola Olsen