28 days later...

i guess one of my worst nightmares is waking up to emptiness... everybody's gone while you're still alive... you just missed the apocalypse because you overslept... i don't know how i would handle it... in 28 days later, that's the beginning of the movie... jim wakes up to nothingness, to an empty london... but he seems to be very cool about it... just wandering around looking for clues...

the reason for the apocalypse is from a virus called rage... apparently if a chimp is put in front of violent tv (including some footage from back home), a virus generates and becomes a disease... all it wants is to infect others... it just takes 10-20 seconds to infect, so pretty soon the whole world is infected...

jim bumps into a couple more survivors and they are trying their best to survive amidst the zombies that are infected with rage... since it is pretty much an anarchic place, they can do whatever they want to survive... they all went to manchester to follow a radio message they picked up...

but when they got there it was all against their expectations... just like in the beach - a movie from the same team - living in a new society made out of necessity brings trouble... there's always a power struggle and a egomaniac when survival is at stake... the difference is that in the beach it was in paradise, while in 28 days later it was in hell...

all in all a good movie... seeing an empty london is pretty scary, but if ever one of my worst nightmares comes true i know what it is and what to do...