dvd of the week
The first seconds of Warm Bodies announces how different it is from almost every other zombie story. It begins with a zombified young man (Nicholas Hoult) wandering through an airport full of other hunched, shuffling dead people, and, shockingly, the young man has a witty, articulate voice over.
This zombie can think and feel and hope and be bored, but he cannot remember much about himself other than that his name begins with the letter R. He may be able to think and feel, but he still has to eat human flesh.
In comparison to the zombies who are so far gone they just look like fleshy skeletons, “At least I feel conflicted about it.” And this is the crux of the conflict when he falls in love with Julie (Teresa Palmer), the daughter of the general (John Malkovich) who runs the last city to survive the zombie apocalypse. Director Jonathan Levine, who expertly adapted Isaac Marion’s 2011 novel that zombified Rome & Juliet, created a wonderful and weird date movie that does the opposite of every other zombie film; it gives you hope.
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