The Destruction Of Christian Faith In 'Warm Bodies'

In the movie Warm Bodies (Levine & Lieberman, Hoberman, Papandrea, 2013), there seem to be many connections to the Christian faith. The imagery of zombies and humans is always a powerful one that can evoke fear and excitement in the crowd who watches. Warm Bodies specifically interacts with the emotions of its consumers. For those whom have not seen this masterful work of art, the plot goes something like this: a zombie named “R” meets a human girl named Julie and instantly falls in love, but they are separated by a wall and the infection of zombieism; the odd couple start a revolution, as zombies’ hearts begin beating through the power of love and they all work to kill the zombies too far gone called “bonies” (Levine et al., 2013). However, though the plot is full of connections to the Christian faith, the one that stands out especially is how the zombies came to life, that is, how they became human again. …show more content…
R is dead just as humanity is dead in sin. As a zombie, R resembled a leech. He sucked on the feelings and emotions of others so that he might feel something. Just like R, humanity tends to try to fill itself with earthly things, such as “brains,” that it trick itself into thinking it needs. However, sin brings death and destruction. Warm Bodies illustrates this especially well in one scene where R eats a piece of Julie’s dead boyfriend’s brain (Levine et al.2013). When a zombie eats a brain, he sees memories and feels the emotions that person had. R sees himself kill Percy, Julie’s boyfriend, in this memory (Levine et