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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1438661" data-attributes="member: 3649">Hmmm, I didn't, and didn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Well, I compared the method of spreading, which is important as a meta-plot kinda thing. In the original NotLD, it just said 'the recently dead are returning to life'. After that point, I forget if we see anyone die of some other means than being bitten by a zombie, but still return to life. Anyone know? As far as their actions? I have tremendous wiggle-room on this within many horror films, depending on the character. In most horror films, you have people under terrible, terrible unrelenting stress. That alone cause people to do stupid things. Even you. And you there in the back, you too. Not even combat-trained people make the correct decisions all the time under stress, especially stress they have not been trained for. And no one is trained to deal with flesh-eating dead things rising up and coming after the living, or any other supernatural horror. I think it was certainly within character for the kid to go after the dog; she's a kid, she's had her entire family killed which means she's probably just a shade away from screaming insanity at the drop of a hat, and she's a 'civilian', meaning most likely the most stressful thing she's ever had to do is drive in downtown traffic. It would have been possibly out of character for Ving's character to do such a thing.  Given the mental problems such massive amounts of life-altering stress would induce in amost anyone, it's probably a mercy they were eaten at the end (I can't see any way out of that situation). Theme.  Hmm, I'm not sure 'apathy' would be correct. The first one (and here is where I do make a comparison <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) is almost famous for being seen as a commentary on modern consumerism. The zombies come to the mall not solely in search of food, but because something deep in their brains tells them 'this is an important place'. The nurses actions near the start might be construed as some form of apathy but I think not. If I heard the word 'epidemic' while switching stations, I might stop at that station.. or I might not. And who's to say she did hear it. She was just tuning out everything to get to some relaxing music after a tough day at work. I think at the end of the day the theme, if there is one as such,  is like it is in many horror films: it doesn't matter who you are or what you've acheived. In the end, you're just food that walks.</blockquote>

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