Comparing 28 days later and 28 weeks later

Rating: 9/10 (4 January 2016)

Comparing two zombie films.
If I had to compare 28 days later and 28 weeks later, the comparison would be that the former is a good action film based on surviving a threat and while being on the road in order to find a mystical Eden, while the latter is more on an intellectual based film on relationships such as the two children and their father, lies that a father tells as not to bring to the surface his inability to have saved his wife while zombies were attacking the village.
In fact, one does not need to see the first to appreciate independently the two films.
For my critic of 28 days later, the idea of finding shelter in a mansion protected by soldiers who want to gang rape the women who are now in their custody in a supposedly core idea of repopulating the world, is quite scary as to see how people or survivors would react in an end of the world tragedy. It is a film genre where an obscure place is found only to detect the profound horror governing the find. It would be like Hansel and Gretel who, lost in the woods, come across a gingerbread house which is a form of haven only to discover the truth behind who lives in the house.
Without mistake the film does it very well.
Now, for 28 weeks later, the ingenuity of the film relies on the postulate that a safe haven has been created for survivors and that life can continue. The evil is now, not inside but outside. One can compare with Anne Frank's diary where the father amid the war raging he believes life can go on even if they are imprisoned in the house attic where they found refuge.
Yet, two children are brought in and meet their father who takes them in his loft and life as a family begins. Then, the boy misses his mother and with his sister go seek the home they lived in the country to seek out mementos like pictures. They find the mother, all are brought back to the city, the father reunites with his contaminated wife in the hospital, they kiss then hell breaks out.
Finally, the two children are saved and brought to Paris and they are responsible for the contamination of the last French survivors as we see the zombies rush out of the metro at the Trocadero, Paris.
The end of the two cities has come from the outside.
Some would argue that this film has some analogies to the Iraq war.
I would disagree since I see no glimpse such as symbols to the Iraqi war. However, I see some analogy to that of not protecting the borders of countries.
With the breakdown of borders by the unification of Europe, probably it sends a negative message as to limit entry to those who may be like the Trojan horse; enter a city with an unclear motive without anyone noticing it and bring havoc.
We see that today, some barriers are being installed as to limit unwanted immigration. Think of the barrier being mounted between the USA and Mexico, the wall already built in Jerusalem and now the whole of Europe with the Syrian immigrants, some countries creating barriers to slow their advance.
Sad! indeed. And some argue that there are terrorists are among the lot thus build barriers so they can be filtered out.