28 Days Later

While watching “28 Days Later” in class today, I felt a little disturbed. In the movie, the main characters repeatedly attacked and killed the zombies that were running after them, and these were the scenes that affected me the most. Aside from the amount of gore and violence in each scene, I was also disturbed by the ability of the characters to simply kill the zombies without any remorse. When I think about what separates a human from a zombie, I think about how zombies lack emotion and feeling. They simply are doing what they need to to survive, even if that means killing someone. But then I thought, “Isn’t that what the main characters in the film were doing as well?” Weren’t they killing others without any sense of emotion and simply doing it to survive? While I’m not saying that humans are zombies, I do feel as if we have the ability to become one under certain circumstances. We have the ability to cut out emotion when we feel it is necessary and do things solely on a survival basis. Perhaps, however, this ability is necessary  for us to survive.