FILM & MUSIC: Zombies and booty shaking.

I finally got round to watching 28 Days Later and I have to say that I was very impressed with its vision of a post apocalyptic London. That said, the opening scenes - were a guy wakes from a coma and proceeds to stumble around a desolate, waste strewn London, in a befuddled daze - kinda of reminded me of every single morning-after-the-night-before that I have endured in the capital. This in turn made me a little homesick for the crapulous splendor of London village.

Whilst the film is not about zombies per se, it owes a great deal to George Romero's The Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Danny Boyle's decision to shoot the film using digital video only adds to the films low budget grainy verisimilitude and general sense of impeding horror.

Anyway I was trying to think of an appropriate song to accompany this post, the obvious choice would be to select something from the excellent soundtrack, which contains songs by Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Brian Eno and Grandaddy.

Instead I decided to go with Neguinho Da Beija-Flor's sublime and intoxicating samba "Aldeia De Okarimbe." What has this beautiful song got to do with the undead?

Probably more than you would expect, for the lyrics of the song contain the very reasonable assertion that, "I am going to protect my life/ From zombies and idiots."

Sage advice indeed.

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