One chimp is strapped to a chair, forced to watch terrible human violence, like Alec in A Clockwork Orange. From the film’s first moments, when a crew of ski-masked, PETA-style activists break into a London lab to save test animals, the camera is in motion, the cuts convulsive, the shadows ragged. A sudden explosion from a makeshift bomb heralds the arrival of fellow 'survivors' Selina and Mark.Restless, irksome, strange: there’s not much downtime in Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. He wanders out into a church where he finds dead bodies piled in heaps on the chapel floor. Twenty-eight days later, Cycle courier Jim awakes from a coma in the deserted intensive care unit of a London hospital.
Music In 28 Days Later Movie Also Appear
An edited version of East Hastings by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed YouTwenty-eight days later. The original score was composed by John Murphy, and tracks from Brian Eno, Grandaddy and Blue States which featured in the movie also appear on the album. It was released on June 17, 2003. Comes the ominous, shaky-voiced answer: “Rage.” And with that, the teary girl unlocks the cage and the chimp leaps at her, sputtering furiously, ripping at her face as she screams.The original score was composed by John Murphy, and tracks from Brian Eno, Grandaddy and Blue States which featured in the movie also appear on the album.28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album is the accompanying soundtrack to the 2002 film 28 Days Later. The chimps, he blurts, are “infected.” With what, asks one girl, prone to tears at the sight of abused creatures.
And no one’s around to tell him, just abandoned vehicles and paper-strewn streets, as if he’s Burgess Meredith wandering about in The Twilight Zone.A good soundtrack album should duplicate the experience of listening to the movie. Jim can only remember that he was in an accident on his bike, but can’t even guess what’s going on now. Ripping the tubes from his arms, he staggers down the hallway to find the place deserted, the ookiness boosted by Anthony Dod Mantle’s grainy-digital, frankly and superbly hard-to-read videowork.
Its maniacal mash-up sensibility extends to plot, which lurches from moment to moment and mood to mood. It’s Night of the Living Dead on crack.Indeed, 28 Days Later, directed by Boyle, written by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew MacDonald (the same team who made The Beach and are as happy to forget it as you are), is upfront about its inspirations (think also of Romero’s The Crazies, John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids, Geoff Murphy’s The Quiet Earth, Thom Eberhardt’s Night of the Comet, even the video-game-based Resident Evil), not to mention every real-life viral scare ever, from polio or syphilis to AIDS or SARS (this last, or course, a reference after the fact). Once stricken, the victim has only a few seconds before he or she turns into the most spastic of zombies, filmed and edited to resemble some speed freakish nightmare, all flailing limbs and staccato movements. Wandering the streets, he looks out from Waterloo Bridge, picks up a weeks-old newspaper with a headline reading, “EVACUATION,” and stumbles on a notice board at Piccadilly Circus: photos, scraps of paper, desperate pleas for help in finding missing people (shot before 9-11 and edited during the aftermath and amid anthrax anxieties, the image eerily evokes NYC’s memorials and notice boards).As Jim eventually discovers — when he’s discovered by a pair of survivors, Selena (Naomie Harris) and Mark (Noah Huntley) — Britain has been decimated by the rage virus, passed on by saliva, blood, and other bodily fluids. Jim picks up wads of money, not realizing yet how worthless it will be.
While the virus metaphor is obviously timely, the characters’ seeming capacity to forget these nasty changes in themselves by film’s end may be the film’s most unsettling point. Both these trajectories are complicated and inexact, adhering to genre conventions but also strained and subversive. And Jim becomes a vicious killer, as ready to exact ugly survivalist vengeance as any conditioned and ultimately desperate soldier boy. Are Jim’s goals global or immediate, like every other guy she’s ever known?Eventually, Selena changes from tough, smart action girl to distressed, if angry, damsel (granted, this is overstated visually, as she’s forced to don a gown as she anticipates her own gang-rape).
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