Tag: borders

I watched 28 Years Later at the cinema today. I went in expecting a zombie film. What I got was something quieter and strangely moving.

Yes, there are infected. Yes, there’s horror. But underneath all that is a feeling I didn’t expect. A kind of sadness, and a sense of a country that has lost its way.

Some people have said it’s a Brexit film. I think that’s true.

The Britain shown in the film is cut off from the rest of the world. People are surviving, but only just. There’s no real trust and no real structure. Everyone is trying to make sense of a world that feels smaller, colder, and more divided.

That hit home.

I voted Remain, and I still believe strongly in being part of Europe. More than that, I do not believe in borders at all. I think people should be able to move, live, and care for each other freely, without being fenced off by fear or paperwork. I know not everyone agrees, but to me it just feels human.

28 Years Later does not push a political message, but it does show what happens when a country closes itself off. When people are told to be afraid of each other. When connection is replaced with control. The Rage virus in the film might be fiction, but the feelings underneath it are real. Fear, anger, isolation.

There are still moments of hope, though. Quiet ones. People looking out for each other. Holding on to something kind in the middle of all the damage. That stayed with me more than anything else.

It has been almost ten years since the Brexit vote. The shock has faded, but the mood has not. That feeling of being cut adrift. Of things slowly falling apart.

28 Years Later does not offer easy answers. But it does ask a question that feels important. What kind of place do we want to be now?