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  "description": "A classic of early aughts horror. Oddly optimistic, violent, bloody and visceral — plus it looks like it was shot on my second iPhone, or an iPhone 4? I immediately knew this was British not because of the accents or the scenery but because the people actually cared about each other. It's the inverse of The Walking Dead . The apocalypse has arrived and you're helping each other? Who does that? In America it's the apocalypse and people are eating each other. Social cohesion versus pervasive selfishness under the guise of individualism. There is the issue of the military though — they have the means to and broadcast a message of hope, only for that message of hope to be used as a trap. The Walking Dead borrowed that trope, not with the military, but still. The military is an instrument of the state to maintain order until there is no state, there is no order and that instrument of violence is loosed to do whatever it elects to. It's structured violence, while the infected are unstructured. If that was the experience you had with the military, why are you trying to signal a jet? Would Frank have made it if he needed contact lenses? Cillian Murphy is incredible (when isn't he?) and the whole thing is virtually flawless. Will gladly watch again.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/28-days-later-2002",
  "publishedAt": "2025-04-27T00:39:28Z",
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  "tags": [
    "scifi",
    "thriller",
    "horror"
  ],
  "title": "28 Days Later"
}