Horror Movie discussion: ZOMBIES

[supervike]

I am the very definition of a home body as well, and have always thought (even before I knew what Dawn of the Dead was) that living in a mall would be the ultimate in cool. Food, drinks, books, clothes, TVs, etc. etc....It's got everything a modern person would need to survive.

However realistically, it would absolutely turn into a prison. Also, the saying of "Familiarity breeds contempt" couldn't be more true than in an occasion like that.

BUT, and not to turn your conversation to the more esoteric....BUT...I feel that is the point Romero is maybe trying to make. The prison isn't the confines of the walls....it's us trapped with our goodies. We build our own prisons by constantly worshiping the almighty consumer goods. We isolate ourselves from the ugly world by building our own fake walls. On another level, we are also the zombies...the mindless creatures attracted to the mall by some compelling, but never described, reason. Mindless zombies, the lot of us!