The survivors Jim met after his coma are
Mark and Selena but later Mark was killed by Selena because he’s bitten and
infected during a fight with zombies in Jim's house where they went for Jim's
request of seeing if his parents were alive. But they had eaten pills to
suicide and left a note to Jim on which they wrote about their despair of the
hopeless and collapsing civilization.
They’re attacked due to Jim’s candle light
in the night for watching photos reminiscent of his past family memory. So we
can say Jim caused Mark’s infection. But, Selena is the person who killed Mark
just because of suspicious. Jim asked her how was she sure Mark was infected?
Selena answered that she would also kill Jim if he might have been infected,
“in a heartbeat”. Never hesitate.
In the later plot, the director is talking
about the gradual loss of hope and humanity, along with the devastation by
virus. The military, government, and all society are stepping to ruins. And
Danny Boyle conceived audience of Selena’s change by Hannah and her father
Frank.
Danny Boyle didn’t put more and more blood
subsequent to their meet, but more about their interaction with sense of humor
such as their happy shopping in empty supermarket. He focuses on the people
more than terror. Terror is necessary only to support the story. Otherwise, the
audience will shortly get used to the blood. It’s hard to fright modern
audience only by effect.
Who had lost his hope to the world, hope of
humanity? And who still keep it? It’s also a question for Jim who had stroke an
infected boy to death with blank face unmercifully. When they still despaired
of the empty military base, Frank was infected. And the military showed up at
this moment but shot Frank to death at Jim’s hesitation. Are the military
really their savior?
Obviously “future” which the commander gave
his soldiers is an excuse for satisfaction of their monstrous sexual desire.
They all had given up their conscience except one who protected them but
executed with Jim later. Jim escaped. Thus far the movie is not just a simple
terror zombie and has accumulated enough conflict about fear of virus, and fear
of “human” as well.
The last extremely excellent dramatic scene
rendered kind of crash of humanity by a series of bloody, violent, terrible
fights. But the metaphors are not given abruptly but have brewed since the
beginning. What we saw is not only a world crumbled by the virus but by
primitive human nature.
Apparently, director deliberately makes Jim
looked as zombie or kind of crazy monster, and when he killed the soldier who
grabbed Selena in cruel way-he pressed his eyeballs into skull, Selena almost
cannot tell whether Jim’s infected and intends to slash him. She held the same
weapon she killed Mark, a machete.
She didn’t. She still keeps her trust of
Jim, and her humanity.
Jim said “It’s longer than a heartbeat”.
And the name of the passionate post-rock music within this whole violent
process is “in the house, in a heartbeat”, which strengthens this passage’s
dramatic power.
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