All of us are Dead

I’m not fond of watching horror or suspense movies, so I don’t know why I got hooked watching this, lol! Since last weekend, my brother’s kids have been watching this series on Netflix, just so you know the eldest is 15 and the girl is 8. We thought that this film would be okay for them to watch certainly with adult supervision. 

At first, I’m unsure if my attention span for this kind of film would ever last longer because for so many years I have known myself as someone who would hate such a genre, or maybe I have less interest because getting scared watching is not my idea of entertainment. When the “Train to Busan” made waves all over the internet some years ago, I never got excited. Same with this.

However, while watching this for a few days now, I have learned that Koreans are really not that morbid with the scenes. I don’t know if I’m accurate with my observation, or must be because I had matured enough on how to accept the kind of violence shown in the film. 

Anyway, “All of us are Dead” is a Korean TV series on Netflix about a zombie apocalypse. While it represents the usual zombie infection, spread and scare, this series also has side stories about friendship, morals and family. And, I think this is one of the interesting aspects of the film. 

The conception of the virus actually started from the story of this father, who happened to be a scientist and at the same time a science high school teacher. His obsession started when his son experienced all sorts of horrible bullying in school, and worst the school authorities just brush aside the problem simply because it does not concern them. Unfair. That’s the reason why the father made this mess. Insane. It turns out to be like that. Just sad that any brilliant mind could create a catastrophic turn of events just because life is cruel and unforgiving.

Friendships are indeed tested in the hardest of times.

In the kind of situation they are in, we can say that only the fittest will survive. But, in this film you will learn that survival is about making sacrifices and team work. During hard times you will learn your real friends, they are the ones who understand your fear and tears. 

There’s this scene early in the series wherein the guy showed benign signs of infection because of a scratch. The mean girl insisted that he was infected, thus was isolated from the group for a few hours just to make sure that he won’t turn into a zombie. However, this mean girl pretended to make a conversation while wiping the guy's wound, but unfortunately discreetly infected him with a zombie’s blood on it just to make her assumption right. Imagine?! A friend would never do that!

Moreover, from this scene, I love the morality shown by the teacher. She must’ve cornered the mean girl for its horrific action, and uplifted what is right in the eyes of her students. But, she still went out and helped the girl, and on her last sensible human moments she still taught about setting things right, humility and being apologetic.

I thought I could write more, perhaps next time when I finished watching it. We're still in episode 7, I guess there is still so much to learn from this series, other than killing and biting, lol!

I'm sure the title was frightening, but the content isn't.

Thanks for reading!

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06/11/2022

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