Yo veo sus películas para pasar un rato entretenido, no por su ideología, mucho menos por sus “mensaje social”:
Do I agree with Romero’s politics? Nope. At times, do I find his depiction of the military and rural good ole’ boys overly simplistic and borderline unfair? Yes. Where we strongly agree, however, is the layer at work just below all of that. Romero has zero respect for authority or power, and the heroes and anti-heroes that populate his imagination are always individualists who understand that if you want to die during a crisis, the fastest way to accomplish that is to trust the media or wait around for the government to come save you. His protagonists might not always make the right choices but they generally do tend to outlive the hand-wringers doing a puppy dog circle waiting for someone to tell them what to do. It wouldn’t be my choice to bring that theme to life using the military, but when it comes to not trusting and being skeptical of those in power – anyone with any kind of authority — Romero and I are blood brothers.
Day of the Dead me parece su mejor película, seguida de Night of the living dead. Fuera del género zombie sus películas no me parecen especialmente dignas de mención, con la excepción de Creepshow.
ReplyDeleteA decir verdad, últimamente me atraen más los libros sobre zombies que las películas sobre el tema que están saliendo, quizás por el mejor y más extenso desarrollo de personajes y situaciones. Espero ansiosamente la publicación de Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile.
Yo también, Wilson, me anoté para que me avisen los de Amazon cuando salga el libro.
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