Searching for Pablo

Dracula, 28 weeks later

May 25, 2007

My Burmese roommate and I were bored out of our skulls yesterday sleeping together on a single bed (this is not brokeback Part 2 I assure you, it's a long story), so we decided to watch a movie. He really wanted to watch "28 weeks later," the sequel to Danny Boyle's surprising zombie movie hit 28 days later released in 2002. 

28 Weeks Later is really a dark and gory movie which made me wax nostalgic about the zombies of yesteryears who were very laggard and the opposite of graceful, outrunning them was way too easy. You couldn't empathize with the actors who had no difficulty in killing the undead.  

The zombies in the 2007 version are not only fast, they run you down.

So anyway, we were watching the movie and he was very animated. Always telling me how scary the movie was and everytime the zombies caught somebody, and that means human sushi, he always had a comment. Either "very good" or "Ahh, good, good." I just smiled at the snide remarks of the bloodthirsty fool.   

For the most part, however, he was mostly silent save for the occassional jolts he makes during scary moments. I really thought he watched 28 Days Later and was able to follow the series. Halfway into the movie and after a prolonged silence, he leaned towards me and asked:

"Are they draculas?"

I was laughing so loud that I couldn't even throw a sarcastic reply. On hindsight, maybe it's probably better that laughter overshadowed any wisecrack I might have said. I like the guy. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a cyclops.  

 

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