Zombies In World War Z

The use of Zombies in World War Z is best described as a racial movement. The zombies may represent many things within the movement, but mainly, that is all the zombies are. A sudden rampage of an uncontrollable epidemic that applies to everyone and everything. Not only do the zombies make the statement of such a large direct impact on humans because of one simple thing, but the zombies cause a series of events to stack onto each other, causing world-wide stress and changing the way everything works in an instant. All of this because of the way the zombies represent themselves as a simple racial movement. Today, one simple thing said by a major leader or public figure can set a community or a whole world in the case of World War Z, into …show more content…
In one of the scenes near the middle of the movie, the main character goes to Israel because supposedly it is completely safe there since they built a wall. The main character, Gerry, is there for a short period of time due to the zombies outrage. While Gerry is in Israel he learns two very important things. One thing Gerry learns is that the zombies have one single weakness, Gerry does not know what specifically the weakness is, but does know what it does. Gerry notices that very few people are immune and invisible in the zombies eyes because they are sick with a certain disease. These people that are sick and invisible to the zombies represent the outsiders in a racial movement, the people that don’t care and ignore all the chaos amongst everyone. The other important thing that Gerry realizes while in Israel for a short time, is that the zombies are smarter than they first appear. Gerry realizes this when the zombies climb over the wall that Israel built to infect the town. These zombies that climb over the once impenetrable wall represent the arguers in the racial movement that won’t stop at anything to get what they want. They will do whatever it takes to get their point across, just as the zombies would do whatever it takes to get across the wall and into Israel to infect all the people within the …show more content…
In here, there is a zombie that the researchers are holding captive to do studies on. This zombie is a good representation of the people who get judged of their input in a racial movement. The zombie is being held captive with nothing it can do to fight for its freedom. In the very last scene of the movie, Gerry finds his way into a lab where he believes the immunity for the zombie outbreak is being held. Gerry injects himself with what he believes to be the immunity and then walks back to the other researchers, right past all the zombies. The zombies don’t even acknowledge Gerry at all, the zombies don’t look at him, smell him, or touch him. It is as if they can’t even see him. These zombies represent the people within the racial movement that have a good point to get across, but no one listens to them because of their appearance or past activities. The zombies in World War Z are used for a wide variety of reasons, all in the field of an act of a racial movement. A racial movement and zombies in World War Z is certainly a great comparison considering how easily the two situations can be looked at. Within a racial movement, there are many components such as the main debaters, the outsiders, the complainers, and the nobody’s. All those components can be put into place with the zombies in World War