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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3853477" data-attributes="member: 4937">And never mind that official US policy from the Federal level right down to the municiple is that civilians should barricade themselves in place in the event of a crisis epidemic precisely because a decentralized population is much harder to infect.Basically, yes.  Alot of films fail the test of 'what would my player's do', but that's where all the zombie films fail for me.  They are so anxious to give thier negative spin on human nature, that they produce this ridiculously over the top ham-handed one sided portrayal of humanity that fails even as good fiction.  (The same thing can be said for most anti-war movies as well.)  Personally, I don't think you need to exaggerate things to condemn human behavior.  Just show us as we are, the good and the bad, and that will do the job sufficiently and be alot harder to scoff at and alot less like a sermon.These sort of movies would be much better in my opinion if the zombies were a threat despite the sensible, reasonable, and understandable things that people were doing.  Of course, that's typically not in the agenda.  What is typically in the agenda is 'society is evil', 'everyone in authority is evil', 'everyone who is rich is evil', and 'when the zombies eat them, they get what they deserve'.  Ultimately, what it comes down to is, 'everyone who believes differently than I do is evil, and deserves to be terrified and killed'.  Of course, the director doesn't want to see it that way, so he projects his own views on to those of his self-created 'enemies'.</blockquote>

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