Last Wednesday, I went to see Warm Bodies at the cinema. I went into this film with an open mind, hearing mixed opinions on it before I went to see it.
The film is about a population of zombies
and the film is seen from their perspective. We learn all about them that they
can’t remember their names and struggle to speak and communicate with each
other. Towards the beginning, the protagonist, R, sees a girl who is human and
he likes he saves her from the rest of the zombies and protects her. Throughout
the film, R’s love for her grows and this love starts to bring him back to life
and he becomes more human like. Over zombies see that he is becoming human
again and they see the love between R and his girlfriend and they also begin to
turn back to human, showing that love was the cure.
The element of the film that stood out to
me was the use of the voice over throughout the film. Because zombies can’t
talk and can only grunt, a voice over from R was used to tell the story. This is
very comedic in places, for example, close to the beginning of the film, he
tells us who is best friend is and that they sit together for hours on end
every day and grunt at each other and have ‘almost conversations’ and then we
see them try to talk to each other and look away because they are unable.
I thought the use of the voice over was
very well done and helped to tell the story very well, and it became slightly
less used towards the end of the film when R was becoming more human and able
to speak again, but then again used in the final few scenes of the film whilst
R was explaining his life as it is now.
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