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Directed By
George A. Romero
Written By:
George A. Romero
Cast:
Ken Foree, Tom Savini, George A. Romero, David Emge, Gaylen Ross, Scott H. Reiniger, David Crawford, David Early, Daniel Dietrich, Richard France, Howard K. Smith
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Dawn of the Dead (1979)
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Movie Review by Richard
June 7th, 2007
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Ever feel like you are losing your individuality?
George A. Romero is a master. I was 7 when I first saw this movie, and all I could think of is, OMFG!
I finally found a DVD copy a year or so ago and said exactly the same thing. This movie tells not only the tale of Zombies trying to take over a shopping mall, but it completely tears apart a genre that Romero made. It is like he is saying, "You guys like to make absurdly bad zombie movies because you suck as directors, I'm going to purposely suck, and purposely try to make a bad zombie movie, and it will blow your sh*t out of the water".
But then I started to see something else. Indoor malls and sprawl and suburbanized and nostalgic homogenizations of society sort of makes us disconnected from reality sometimes. We have these nice centers of commerce, but they don't have character. In a way, we are like zombies, or possibly like sheep. The protagonists serve as free will asserting itself and beheading the zombies, who, for the most part, act as mindless, moaning, consumers of flesh, just scratching the walls for their next fix of fresh produce. The newest thing. The latest victim.
Yes, George, you make me think all sorts of things. This movie is also really funny. I would give it 5 stars, but it really drags on at one point before the final scenes in a way that just seemed to be Romero trying to fill up some time to bring the movie past 2 hours. He slows the set up of a lot of the action, sort of makes it boring some times. He probably meant that, though.
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