Last night I watched the movie Warm Bodies. It was really cute, a zombie rom-com, how can you go wrong? Beware, I am going to spoil it, but if you saw a trailer, it kind of already was spoiled.
Watching this, I reminded of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning (available here), in which he recounts his time in a concentration camp and how those that found some meaning or purpose survived while those without something to live for died.
The zombies in Warm Bodies, are called corpses or bonies, depending on how far the disease that infects them has run it's course. The bonies live only to feast on the flesh of humans.
R, the main corpse character, starts out the movie longing for some sort of interaction as he wanders around the airport where the corpses live. He meets Julie, and begins to fall for her, and saves her from the other corpses and protects her in the plane he lives in. His going outside himself, caring for Julie and protecting her, sparks something in R, and some of the effects of the infection that made him a corpse/zombie begin to reverse, and he becomes human again.
Caring for another, loving another is a quintessential human act, and through doing something human, R becomes human again. Much like those in the concentration camps, his care for Julie is the meaning that gave him something to live for.
Watching this, I reminded of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning (available here), in which he recounts his time in a concentration camp and how those that found some meaning or purpose survived while those without something to live for died.
The zombies in Warm Bodies, are called corpses or bonies, depending on how far the disease that infects them has run it's course. The bonies live only to feast on the flesh of humans.
R, the main corpse character, starts out the movie longing for some sort of interaction as he wanders around the airport where the corpses live. He meets Julie, and begins to fall for her, and saves her from the other corpses and protects her in the plane he lives in. His going outside himself, caring for Julie and protecting her, sparks something in R, and some of the effects of the infection that made him a corpse/zombie begin to reverse, and he becomes human again.
Caring for another, loving another is a quintessential human act, and through doing something human, R becomes human again. Much like those in the concentration camps, his care for Julie is the meaning that gave him something to live for.
