Followed

Just previewed "Followed" at a theater in Macon, GA where the short was filmed. Where George Romero casts zombies as blind mass consumerists or felled military vets reliving the perceived glory of 'living', this film casts the zombies (mostly children) as pariahs of the injustices of the living; following the living around like undead albatross. It kinda flips the roles around to a degree. The zombies are little more than pests that are endured by the living (referred to as road-kill). This is a radical twist on the traditional flesh-eating monstrosities canonized by Romero wherein the living are hunted to near extinction by an ever growing majority of the undead. This is a social commentary that could mean 100 different kinds of injustice to 100 different spectators. Very interesting movie that could be read as a reflection on racism or child abuse or any of a number of social injustices, and how we (the living) try to rectify those ills. We are the consumers and the zombies are the cannon-fodder of our petty needs and desires. They are not quite indoctrinated into our society the way vampires are in "True Blood". They are more akin to 'Untouchables' in Hindu Brahman culture,..entities to be used (in life) and ignored (in death)after relegated to a lower strata of the social order.(In "Sean of the Dead", the living even domesticated zombies... Pets!!) A very interesting study...highly recommend. Cinematography was top notch.Sylvia Boykin, Erryn Arkin and Edith Ivey are fantastic in their casual discourse on the monsters that populate the world. The zombies are similar to Dickensian Christmas ghosts of Xmas future...silent but judgmental The locales are recognizable to us natives so i am biased ...Macon is a fantastic backdrop (almost a character of the feature in itself}. Do GO SEE this!!