Warm Bodies

What really struck me about Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies is a part in the beginning, when “R” gets married and how he and his wife are given children and how they are trying so much to be human again but lack the necessary emotion, or humanity. Also, what struck me about this part is that his “wife” has a nametag, she has a name, she has an identity, and yet the zombies have lost the ability to read. This made me think of the clip from lecture last week that led to a discussion of how, in a time when the world is collapsing the most important thing that people really cling to and rely on is the media for information about what is going on. However, part of the characteristics of an apocalyptic setting is the lack of a centralized government, or a lack of unity when getting accurate information to the few survivors clinging to their radios and TV’s with hope of good news. In Warm Bodies, it is the zombies who are clueless and lost and desperately wanting to know what happened, who they were, even just what their names had been. They do not know why they are what they are they just know that they exist. In this sense the zombies are in even more of a state of desperation then the people just because the information addressing what happened to civilization is all around them, they have just lost the ability to read and interpret it. Without knowledge of what to do or where to turn for help, it makes sense why they would give in to the instinct to attack humans, they have nothing to follow that tells them what they should or should not be doing other then whatever their instincts drive them to do. Honestly I feel very bad for zombies, they really are victims of something horrible and yet they are always seen as the bad guys. They may be monsters but somehow it is not entirely their fault.