The 2013 American zombie film, adapted from the novel of the same name, directed by Jonathan Levine, starring Nicholas Holt, Teresa Palmer, John Markovich, annali Tipton, tells the story of a thoughtful zombie who falls in love with a human girl, whose love restores him to humanity and infects his own kind, and eventually becomes friendly and harmonious with humans.
Mysterious viruses rage around the world, infected people turn into zombies, the desire for human flesh and blood is difficult to suppress, human beings are almost extinct, survivors gather to survive, until the formation of an army to set up walls to live a slightly stable life, but there is also a constant threat of zombie siege, they are full of fear and hatred for it.
The protagonist of the story is a zombie, but he is a little special, slightly higher in appearance and thoughtful, other zombies only have the instinct to eat people, while he lives more petty, he also likes to listen to music when he is alone, he also has a zombie friend bald man, the two can communicate in simple words, and unlike other walking dead, they will only scream.
Zombies usually go out in groups to feed on humans, so the success rate is higher. Julie is the daughter of the leader of the human armed forces, young and beautiful, her mother is the mouth of the zombie, she hates the zombie to the extreme, this day with her boyfriend and girlfriend to form a battle group without authorization, want to give life a little stimulation, show their bravery. Not wanting to be unfavorable, on the first day of action, they encountered the male protagonist's foraging squad, and the other zombies rushed forward to tear up and bite and nibble, which was a feast for them. The male protagonist killed Julie's boyfriend and ate his brain, suddenly looked up to see Julie who hated himself, was attracted by her beauty, could say love at first sight, and then walked straight to Julie.
Julie could not shoot too late, still the knife could not work, watching the zombie approaching herself, directly closed her eyes and waited for the arrival of fear, but strangely, the zombie did not eat her, but smeared his blood on his face, disguised it as a zombie, and returned to the zombie station, Julie was too frightened to speak, silently obeyed and followed him away. Julie is really eye-opening, seeing so many zombies here, she feels that she has little time, but the zombie in front of her does not mean to eat herself, and he comes to the plane where the male protagonist rests, and the lone man and widow are somewhat violated.
The zombie is very good at taking care of the girl, very caring, covering her with a blanket to sleep, and warmly finding canned beer to entertain her, and then putting on a vinyl record, so that Julie can stay at ease. Seeing that the girl is no longer anxious and afraid, the male protagonist sits on the side with some pride, and when he is hungry at night, he eats something to bring back her boyfriend's brain, and obtains the memory of his pursuit of Julie before he was born, and the relationship between the two is very good, which may also make the male protagonist feel that he is now his boyfriend, and he should be good to Julie.
Although here food and clothing worry-free, but Julie stayed for a few days or felt that it was necessary to escape, she took advantage of the male lead to go out to find food for herself, sneaked out to want to leave, but other zombies smelled the smell immediately poured over, seeing that they were about to be surrounded and eaten, the male owner arrived in time, once again smeared something on her face to escape a disaster, back on the plane, the two chatted simply, the male owner could not remember too much, claiming that the name was R and also promised to take her out, but not now, because it was too unsafe. Anyway, everything has to listen to him, just look at the opening point to enjoy the moment.
Julie found that there was a sports car parked here, there was even oil to drive, so she took R out for a ride, interacted with him to do games, lived a couple's cohabitation life, the bald man found the difference of friends, may be jealous, he threatened R to eat some Julie, R must be a hundred unhappy ah, he took his girlfriend all the way to avoid the zombie chase, did not want to encounter more powerful fighting force in front of the interception, when there was no way out, fortunately the bald man drove to rescue, he still convinced himself, saw R and Julie holding hands, The other zombies were a little touched, no longer hostile to them, but instead gave way for the two to drive away.
Finally left the land of zombies, Julie is very happy, but also to stay in an empty room, find a polaroid, play with R to take a selfie, Julie also invited him to go upstairs to sleep together, of course, he had to sleep on the ground to protect himself, late at night in the conversation, Julie learned that her boyfriend was eaten by R news, although not too surprised, but still a little sad, R can't bear Julie sad, anxiety gradually fell asleep unexpectedly, already knew that zombies are sleepless, more strange is that he also had a dream, dreaming of Julie and his boyfriend, It can be seen that his body has undergone tremendous changes.
When she woke up, Julie was gone, she returned to the human world, talked to the surviving girlfriend about her bizarre experience, R was lost, took his girlfriend's selfie to secretly hurt himself, and then returned on foot, he shivered coldly in the heavy rain, met his bald friend with zombies to meet him, learned that they felt that changes had occurred in their bodies, they were driven out of the bone skin, there was no place to stay, so R decided to risk finding Julie, let her help herself, zombies who have begun to heal themselves should no longer be enemies of humans.
R sneaks into the human settlement, finds Julie, and explains to her the news that her companions have begun to heal themselves, and Julie and her girlfriends can't believe it, which makes the father who leads the army even more unacceptable and needs to think about it in the long run. The two girls bathed R and cut their hair, makeup, and dressed like a fashionable boy, walking on the road is impossible for people to see that it is a zombie, but it is still difficult to communicate after seeing the stubborn father. With the help of her girlfriend, Julie escapes the human area with R.
Came to the zombie area was chased by a large number of bone skin, the bald man led the zombie to fight with it to protect the male protagonist, but it could not withstand too long, Julie's father led the army to prepare for the bloody zombies to save her daughter, Julie and the two jumped from the high platform to avoid the bone skin, just out of the water was shot by the father R, actually saw him bleeding, indicating that what he said is not false, the original zombie can really heal itself. On the other hand, the human army cooperated with the zombie army to destroy the bone skin, and the humans finally recognized the zombies and helped them to live in harmony.