A film about growing up… by killing infected zombies

You wouldn't believe it. And this is good, very good, considering we're talking about a late sequel to 28 days later from 2002, which already had a second part in 2007 and which, since then, we have seen millions of films and series and played hundreds of video games about infected zombies (yes, we have even lived through a pandemic, what the heck!). That is to say, as addicted spectators, our capacity for astonishment may be completely anesthetized. But then Danny Boyle comes along and, patapam, he invents, 28 years later, a film about ultra-violent cannibalistic infected people that seems, at times, new. First of all, because it's largely a story... of children's adventures! It's a rite of passage for a 12-year-old boy who lives overprotected and literally isolated in a self-sufficient reserve of quarantine survivors. gore and one day his father takes him out into the open so he can learn how to kill savages. From there, the film evolves with unexpected plot twists and tones. They don't always work, of course! Sometimes, Danny Boyle steps right into the ditch with some truly disconcerting sentimental sections of the story. But other times, he pushes himself, along with Alex Garland on the script (there are fragments that remind us of Civil War, in fact), some proposals within this subgenre that are quite unusual and gratifying: the character of Ralph Fiennes (a humanist Colonel Kurtz?) or the film's capicuous prologue and epilogue would be good examples.