NP - Glitch

[David Morris]

The Gentle Zombie genre seems a vehicle for active regret, flawed time
travel.  It is destined for failure, but with a gained wisdom.

David Morris

On Wednesday, November 2, 2016, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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