The meanings

Rating: 6/10 (11 October 2007)

The main interesting aspects of the film are social, sociological and psychological. It creates (with a good degree of realism) situation where the whole of British society is divided and how it might behave in such a situation. A set of moral and ethical issues is being raised where the army is dealing with contaminated groups of people. The way in which the film raises those issues is very interesting and differs from other movie. (althoutgth some similarity in that respect can be drawn with the film "Independance Day").
Psychologically the film also manages to expose dilemmas and ethical survival choices and decisions. It shows that as other animals, humans act on self preservation instincts, but unlike animals humans are also capable of self-sacrifice; heroism for a greater good.
Visually the film is valuable as it acted out and staged directly in the environment that we live in and use every day, In fact - London is the main hero of the film. (especially in 28 Days Later) There are many shots of London as we do not normally see it - Panoramic shots, but also details that we all recognise such as tube signs and buses, that majorly helps to recreate the atmosphere of a mysterious catastrophe. As each londoner inevitably "tries on" the outlook of the film characters and their impression on seeing our habitat like that.