As part of the Human Rights Film Festival, I saw the final
film Project Z: The Final Global Event.
It was very interesting! I enjoyed how the makers of the documentary used the
very popular trend of the zombie apocalypse in nonfiction work. Though I feel that
metaphor could have been better explained or introduced I think it brought
forth several interesting questions and points. People need to wake up (stop
being undead) and start living and making decisions to change the world we live
in. The zombie apocalypse can be viewed as the end of human freedom, we all
will become the drones of a militarized and government controlled society if we
don’t actively pursue social change. It’s not necessarily a medical catastrophe
or mutation of the human species that makes us undead; it is our unwillingness
to go against the “norm” and our laziness to question the societal structures
around us. I enjoyed the footage of the inner workings of military training and
the development of video technology and how it connects to the video games that
many people play. War is put on a screen and we easily destroy the enemy from a
distance. These dehumanizing effects mutate the way wars are fought and how
soldiers perceive the enemy. All of this information points to how war has
transformed, both in financial and human costs. All in all a very interesting take
on the military industrial complex.
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