Zack Snyder is a racist bigot

Rating: 2/10 (20 November 2005)

The remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead is far from a remake. The film was actually influenced by 28 Days Later directed by Danny Boyle. This fact explains the running zombies and the news broadcast of human figures beaten down by policemen.
The original version had the subtext of criticizing consumerism, and the racial subtext was optimistic. The characters seemed to go along well despite the difference in skin color or profession.
I found Zack Snyder's version offending. At the beginning of the film, the news broadcast of a zombie outbreak is shown, but also the audience see a clip of a Muslim mosque full of Muslims performing an obligatory prayer, together with the news of the dead coming back to life. The subtext of the new version of Dawn of the Dead is that Christianity is normality, and if one does not follow Christianity, then an apocalypse will come, with the dead coming back to life.
With all the racial and religious tension today in the US, we don't need another reason to make minority groups offended. It is sad that although explicit racism and religionism is prohibited, films like these carryout racism and religionism in its subtext, and gets away with it.