28 Years Later’s Most Shocking Scene Changes The Zombie Movie Series Forever

Spoilers Before “28 years later”.

There are a lot of gamechangers in “28 years later” Third film that long awaited in the franchise “28 days later”. There is the Ninjas inspired by Jimmy Savile in the final scenethe involvement of crows being at least partially in line with some of the infected, and of course This giant zombie penis It was moving around all the films. I do not know why this infected man in particular had to be hung, but I suppose that is why I am a film critic and Danny Boyle is a film director.

The craziest scene, however, is the one that occurs halfway through the film. Spike (Alfie Williams) and her mother Isla (Jodie Comer) come across a woman infected pregnant in work. In an act that is both courageous and insane, Isla decides to help the infected woman to give birth. Not only is the baby perfectly in good health, but the infected woman displays a level of consciousness that we are not used to seeing them. She understands that Isla tries to help and allows him to deliver the baby.

Of course, she attacks Isla shortly after, but even it is not necessarily a sign that she returned to a total state of rage. It could mean that she simply tries to resume her baby, an action that shows at least an understanding of her own maternity that, in your opinion, would be beyond her. In “28 weeks later”, Don forgets all the love he has for his wife In a few seconds after his infection; The infected woman, however, could still see her child not infected as someone to protect.

The implications of infected people who can procreate are massive, as well as the implications that come with their health -born offspring. But perhaps the most important part of the delivery scene is not the baby itself, but the way in which the alpha (an infected man who has become abnormally large and strong) reacts.

The Alpha, called by the non-infected like Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry), appears shortly after the baby’s birth to brutally murder the Swedish soldier Erik (Edvin Ryding), who shot down the infected mother. Samson sees the baby in Isla’s hands and pursues her furiously, but not before crying the death of the infected woman. The involvement is quite clear: Samson is the baby’s father, and he cares about both infected women and her newborn. Does he express this care in the healthiest way? Maybe not, but he always displays a level of sentimentality that he is not supposed to have.

Rendering Samson and the other scary alphas is the way they have formed their own rituals. When they kill an animal (or Erik, by the way), they tear the head of being, with a dragging spine, and wedge it in a tree to mark their territory. Barbarian, of course, but there is a clear method with madness.

Like the way “28 weeks later” donates more intelligent than zombies “28 days later”, Samson seems smarter than Don. The virus seems to have continued to evolve, moving to a point where infected behaves more and more like non-infected. Maybe they will always be hostile to ordinary humans, but within their own group of infects, they perhaps slowly develop their own human civilization.

It is possible that this franchise, which Has the next continuation has already filmed and another suite laterMake a point on the fact that the non-infected is not much better than the infected. Samson can kill humans in good health without discrimination, but is it really different from Jamie’s approach (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who teaches Spike to kill the infected without hesitation or compassion?

Admittedly, Jamie’s approach to deal with the infected is understandable, but the baby’s delivery scene is the first moment of the franchise where Jamie’s approach no longer seems to be the answer. Shortly after, Dr. Kelson pacifist enters the story, and his decision to spare Samson’s life several times never returns to bite him or Spike. “28 years later” marks the first time that the first time peace between infected and not infected, even if it is not committed to it for the moment.

The whole story with the baby Isla feels familiar. We have seen Pieces of this already in “Children of Men”, “ Another dystopian film where the protagonists must somehow classify a baby in an aggressively hostile area towards babies. In “Children of Men”, just like “28 years later”, the baby represents hope. In the first, the baby proves that the fertility crisis of humanity does not need to be the end of civilization, and in the second, the baby shows that something good can still come out of something so horrible. It seems incredible that a healthy baby can be worn by an infected couple so grotesque (Dr. Kelson attributes to the placental barrier to protect the baby Isla from the pathogen). This scenario is a dose of radical optimism in a franchise which is otherwise deeply cynical.

Of course, the jury is always on the fact that few Isla is really healthy or not. This could be another situation of Alice Harris, with Isla who turns out to be a carrier of the virus despite her immunity herself. Or it could be a new variation, even more intelligent of the virus, where it does not activate before it is old enough to do real damage.

If the Isla scenario continues to be as optimistic as “28 years later”, perhaps Isla Coulc even holds the healing of the virus. The circumstances of his birth are much more extreme than those of Ellie is “The Last of Us”, for example, But they are similar. Ellie is immune because her mother was infected shortly before childbirth. Baby Isla’s mother was infected much earlier, but perhaps the same basic logic applies.

Baby Isla could be a savior of humanity (well, A Savior of the United Kingdom), or it could be what once again condemns humanity. Which one is she? We will have to wait until January 2026, when “28 years later: the Bone Temple” comes out in theaters, to discover it.