NP - Glitch

[John Bailey]

Glitch is Australian and was a critical darling here, although I
haven't watched it. I'm interested in the "gentle zombie genre"
though! It really throws a spanner into the workings of the usual
zombie metaphor.
Since Romero on almost all zombie flicks have played on feelings about
the mindless and all-consuming horde, and that's tapped into fears of
the working class, the counterculture, the consumer, the immigrant,
the terrorist, all kinds of Others that can be imagined as a mass.
Compare with the vampire (usually urban elite) or the werewolf (rural,
tribal).
So what do we make of zombies who are gentle and beloved and almost
just like us? I dunno. Almost more like ghost stories in that the
violence seems a psychic one rather than anything physical. More about
loss and grief and absence and time's arrow?
Also of note: the zombie genre across all media has a much, much
higher volume of non-anglo protagonists and main characters, going all
the way back to Night of the Living Dead with its African-American
hero (in 1968!). From the looks of it Glitch does not stray from the
almost pornographic whitewashing of Australian TV, however.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you familiar with the French TV series "The Returned" in which dead
> people just walk back into the town where they died years before?  Not as
> zombies, but not quite normal either. "Glitch" is Nteflix's new version of
> that scenario.  Glitch shows them clawing themselves up from their graves,
> and walking dirty naked into town (no frontal).
>
> This gentle zombie genre is new (except Pynchon did it in VL).  It allows
> for non-violent reconsideration of the past.  I like its product.
>
> David Morris
>
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