>>6278791>>6280007>>6294800>BRITAIN1200 years ago, vikingr Northmen raiders attacked Britain, then Laurence Olivier and some longbow archers shot at the French in Agincourt, Rudyard Kipling felt regret over the Empire after his son died so he wrote an imperialistic foot fetish military sex trampling poem BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS - Now, interspliced with this Adam Curtis intro, a terrible post apocalyptic tragedy has occurred, all of England has been digitally replaced by Quebec (?) post production VFX financial incentives, it is unclear if this filmmaking nightmare happened before, after or coincident to a zombie outbreak, but as one of the film characters remarks (actual film dialogue) it is something to do with STOCKBROKERs, or ALPHAs as the spine-ripping decapitation trophy head skulltaker cannibal shambling zombie leaders are named. The mildly Oedipal main narrative concerns a young boy attempting to bring his mother to see a doctor on the mainland. His mother is called Isla, like ISLAND British ISLES you see?? the allegory is so subtle, she is sick and dying, oh no she is dead, here have her skull and some latin memento mori delivered by the shaman Doctor (Ralph Fiennes) in a sombre and sympathetic retelling of Judaeo-Christian allegorical myth, literally delivering Moses a reborn girl child in a plastic supermarket shopping basket upon the seashore (actual film dialogue quote: through the MAGIC PLACENTA) it is the power of CHILDBIRTH newborn children are innocent and uninfected by rage, JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN myth it is so very subtle and noninsinuating, Ralph Fiennes is constructing HEAPS OF HUMAN SKULLs to honour their memory like the holocaust literally pillars and towers and totem poles and pagodas of human skull holocaust shrines like the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge museum except with native British people. As a Doctor he drugs and pacifies them with tranquiliser needles, another metaphor, hmmm. Also, just in case you did not notice the Judaeo-Christian symbolism, the lead aggressor Alpha Zombie is named SAMSON to remind you of Israel. So you see the sick mother Isla has to die for the new stolen Moses girl child Isla to be reborn with the same name. Then the film just ends when a gang of kung fu Jimmy Savile delinquent children appear. Gareth Pugh did well with the fashion costumes. There is also a brief fight in a Shell petrol station (the dilapidated sign reads "_hell") they are choking because climate change also assault rifles and fast food or war or something. Anthony Gormley tries to confer artistic legitimation upon the desolate wilderness with a sculptural appearance, that is the extent of culture the North Of England possesses, grim indeed. Please beg Alex Garland and Danny Boyle for more compelling metaphors in the sequel
