Watching this now through the 85 minute point on the On Demand cable television service of Comcast in Seattle Washington I had never heard of this film before, or I heard about it and it never registered in my mind when it was being promoted in advertisements. Malcolm McDowell always adds an entertaining level of drama to any work he is part of, I always think, because of how he speaks.
The production quality makes me think of the 2007 film "28 Weeks Later" and that is reinforced by a musical score I heard at least twice that I think is also the same as I heard on the DVD version of that film "28 Weeks Later."
The female team leader is a believable character, I feel generous to describe, because she does not over-act her role and she does not under-act her role. The scene with the plate of human flesh is revolting and I try not to think of the consistency of the prop in that scene. I think several times of when I was in that Pioneer Square homeless shelter and someone who might have claimed to be a US Army veteran complained once as we stood at the elevator about how the smell of human flesh is unforgettable and I associate that dialog with burning aluminum.
So, anyway, I think there was something else I wanted to note here in this pointless report but I cannot now recall what I wanted to note.
Oh yeah, it's similar to when I watched "30 Days of Night" the first time. I am confused about how I feel there is a certain relevance to that but if that is so relevant then why did I only watch it after simply noticing it showing up someplace? Should I have not searched it out? I feel now the same way about this film. Perhaps that is what it means. Ah, yes, something new I thought of yesterday. I am outside of it all. I am not quite an observer but I am definitely not a full participant. At least, not any more.
I have been thinking for a while about how those participants are people who are not even aware they are participants. The insidious nature of the common cold.
Do you ever remember me saying back in the 1990s about how "impossible just means no one has figured out how to do it yet?" I remember that in my memory. Whether anyone else in my imaginary life remembers that I think about. I think about that kitchen, orange juice, what did I get? A long time that I don't want to talk about too much.
I didn't start off to end my dialog with these following references that I think are relevant but that have no specific bearing on my rambling line of thought as my forceful mind wants to hammer down the walls in my mind.
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Doomsday (2008)
Cellar Guard: [to Sinclair] If you're hungry, have a piece of your friend.
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[first lines]
Kane: Like so many epidemics before, the loss of so many lives began with a single microscopic organism. It's human nature to seek even the smallest comfort in reason, or logic for events as catastrophic as these. But a virus doesn't choose a time or place. It doesn't hate or even care. It just happens.
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Country Date
USA 14 March 2008
UK 27 April 2008 (Dead by Dawn, Scotland's International Horror Film Festival)
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Kane: These walls around you; they were built to last, and so shall we. What we've built here, from the ashes, is pure blood. Uninfected by the outside world... until now.
Dr. Ben Stirling: Have you found the cure?
Kane: Ah, even now you still cling to hope, huh? If I were you, I'd abandon any such thought.
Dr. Ben Stirling: There's always hope.
Kane: But there is no cure. There never was. We had prevailed here, not because of science but through natural selection. Survival of the fittest. We have earned the right to live here.
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Kane: I knew they'd be watching the cities. That's why we chose this place. Out of sight, out of mind. I suppose it was only a matter of time before they sent someone to ask the question "why are you alive, when you should be dead?"
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Bill Nelson: [to Sinclair] You carry on the way you're going, you're going to wind up one seriously fucked up individual.
