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Once on the ground and running, he looks back to glimpse Alice at the window with the kind of expression you might expect on a wife whoвЂ™s just seen her loving husband do what Don did. He decides the other way and climbs out the window. Don then has the same split second to make the same decision. She has a split second to decide between Don, whoвЂ™s offering the safety of a window to exit, and the boy, and she chooses the boy just as the rage-virus zombies burst into the room. Sure enough, the house is breached by his pursuers, and Don and Alice are separated because she wonвЂ™t abandon the boy, whoвЂ™s trying to hide. The boy informs them his mum and dad, along with any number of others, were chasing and trying to kill him. Don counsels ignoring the pleas, given the circumstances, but Alice protests, вЂњDon, itвЂ™s a kid!вЂќ and opens the door. TheyвЂ™re then jolted by banging and crying from outside: a childвЂ™s voice, begging for shelter. She makes clear that they are everything to her, and he agrees.

DonвЂ™s love is some help, but what really mitigates AliceвЂ™s despair is her relief that their two children happened to be on a school trip on the continent when the shitstorm hit.

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America, as it so often has, is leading the reconstruction and repatriation of those lucky few whoвЂ™d escaped abroad, that project centred around a secure Green Zone (and those alert to political resonances might intuit how that hubris will play itself out).Д«ut prior to that exposition, the spectacular set piece that opens the movie makes clear where its real energies are concentrated: we start with husband and wife Don and Alice, hunkered down with others in a barricaded farmhouse while the virus is still raging. The story picks up in 28 Weeks Later with the virus having burned itself out in a locked-down Britain after having taken most of the population with it. At that movieвЂ™s release, it felt terrifyingly as though someone had changed the rules and not informed the audience. The shufflingly slow reanimated corpses that could be avoided by a brisk walk in Night of the Living Dead had, in 28 Days Later, become rabid dervishes animated by a rage virus.

First, horror as a genre still seems a little grindhouse to some, and second, itвЂ™s a sequel, to a movie that would seem to outshine it: Danny BoyleвЂ™s 28 Days Later, the critical and financial success that transformed (if not created) the modern zombie sub-genre, mostly through the innovation of sprinting zombies. There are probably a couple of good reasons for that. ItвЂ™s a measure of how underrated Juan Carlos FresnadilloвЂ™s 28 Weeks Later is that when I recommend it to people, theyвЂ™re often startled.

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