Warm Bodies Diagnosis

Movie Review: Warm Bodies

I’m going to focus on the main message I got from this movie. The message was that people need to start “living life” in today’s society. To begin, I’ll start with the first scene of the movie.

A teenage male; zombie, ponders, “What am I doing with my life? I’m so pale; I should get out more; I should eat better. My posture is terrible; I should stand up straight. People would respect me more if I stood up straight. What’s wrong with me, I just want to connect. Why can’t I connect with people? Oh right, it’s because I’m dead.”

As the movie begins, it parallels the two worlds inside an airport, the dead; zombies in an apocalypse, and the “living”; the same zombies but alive and on their phones while they ignore each other. The zombie makes fun of the scene as he recalls, “I must have been so much better before. Where everyone can express themselves and communicate their feelings.” While reflecting between the two worlds, Warm Bodies touches up on how people lack “life” in today’s society.

• Throughout the movie characters continue to express how even the ones alive have the same characteristics of the zombies because of their attitude on life.

o The ones who want to find a cure for the zombies are the ones who have hope for life.

o The ones who want to abolish all zombies are the ones who have lost hope for life; perhaps in exception of the unaware or influenced, or both.

• Eventually the zombie; although dead, falls in love with a girl because he ate her boyfriend’s brains and absorbed his feelings for her. “Why do I have to be so weird? What am I doing?” (Talk about how people that live and express themselves are differentiated as “Weird”)

• As the zombie gets spiritually closer with the girl, his heart starts to beat again and he starts to “live” again.

• The movie puts emphasis on feelings and what it’s like for a zombie to...