Why Are These Infected Absolutely SILENT? The Night Eats The World 

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Fun fact about how keen a humans sense of smell can be, in college we had this kid in our biology class who claimed he could track his mother and father in large stores like costco based off his sense of smell. So our professor set up a experiment this kid, Tim was blindfolded and had noise cancelling headphones on, and was put in a corn maze with his goal to find his mom and dad who had gone through and hid separately. We learned two things, he can absolutely track you by smell, and despite his weight, he can move fast as fuck. like not gunna lie, he didn't slow down, and he went through the corn mazes walls, like a blind deaf kool-aid man, fucking terrifying.

Roanoke was confused why there were keys in the security office. Id imagine they're spare keys meant to be used by the owner or repair workers for getting into the rooms when the renter isn't home or isn't cooperating

Out of all the stupid stuff he did throughout the movie, making a small hole in the doors to take out the zombies was genius

Isn't this just a movie length, zombie as metaphor for moving on from a relationship? The party is his realization that she's for sure moved on which causes him to fall into depression (the zombie apocalypse). The old couple are symbols for the loss of the ideal future he saw this girl and his makin an altar to them is releasing it but honoring the memory. The zombie in the elevator is therapy. Sarah is rebound girl that doesn't work out but shows him that he's still gotta move on. The working out, the measuring food, playing music, etc is the kind of stuff you do to drag yourself out of a depression. The burning of the tapes is a symbolic relelease of what is holding him back. The final chase and what not at the end is accepting the painful and hard work of truly moving on, even though it's scary.

Project zomboid has taught me that screaming can actually be a valuable tool as long as you also have a valid escape route or are in a safe spot. I would rather stand outside a building and scream to draw anything inside out than blindly go inside said building and get attacked

You asked about water pressure. A lot of building have water towers on the roof, they provide pressure without power, and some refill themself with rain water.

well, there is always the possibility that sam is an asymptomatic carrier, so him not becoming a zombie is more a result of not displaying symptoms rather than not being infected, and there's a good chance that the other "survivors" were also asymptomatic, but couldn't survive the physical trauma of being mauled by zombies

This really makes me think about babies who are neglected. Whether by choice or by circumstance, there are infants who are severely neglected without human contact. Do they hallucinate social interactions? My grandparents were foster parents and they took care of a baby girl born without half her brain. When they got her, they were told she was deaf, blind, and mentally impaired. They didn't know how to care for a special infant so they treated her like a normal infant. Turns out she was not blind or deaf. She lived a normal life afterwards (with normal cognitive activity) until her untimely death at 16 (or this is what I remember from the stories I was told).

Never expected this movie to get covered. What a pleasant surprise. My headcanon is that the virus was a biological weapon used in a terrorist attack and that is why everything was so sudden, preventing security measures against infection from being taken. Also, the fact that they ignore animals (Like the cats), could reinforce the idea that the infection was designed to only affect humans and make the infected only attack uninfected humans. At least that's my take on this virus.

That feel when you watch a 50 min deep dive into the biology of zombies in a movie you haven't heard of let alone watched. Keep up the good work Roanoke!

The wind chimes he hears at the end of the movie imply that he didn't make it out of the building and was simply hallucinating a dramatic escape.

Project Zomboid has a similar zombie disease infection. The first infection was airborne and a lot of people got infected which is what essentially shuts down the world, but you do have people who are immune to the airborne strain. The amount of people immune to the airborne is very small and they can still be infected through blood and saliva which is what happens in this movie. So it could just be that everyone was already being infected and Sam just happened to be very lucky (like he is throughout the movie XD)

I used to think I would be fine living without any other humans, until both of my dogs that I had grown up alongside passed away. I had never felt loneliness before, so it was a really strange sensation.

About the security office: Yes! Buildings in Europe will sometimes have a security guard/janitor hybrid position. This person usally has keys to all doors in the building and is sometimes given a flat to live in as part of the contract. It's a pretty sweet deal for everyone involved, as emergency maintenance services will be availiable basically 24/7 and the janitor gets to live in an area they wouldn't be able to afford otherwise!

That point about people being social is so true. I am SEVERELY introverted and can go a long while without talking to other people. But back in college I had late night classes and work so I basically never got to see anyone and it started to take a toll on me.

In defense of him not making noise to see if there are any infected in the apartment, the first time he did it, he was in a hole up above and there was no possible way for any infected to reach him if there were any. If he were to yell while inside the apartment, they could possibly overwhelm him and he'd rather go in quietly to see if he could back out first without alerting them, he's trying to avoid confrontation at all cost.

Remember when he hallucinated himself outside? Sarah talking about making preparations to leave could be his subconscious telling him what he needs to do because he knows he needs to. He knows there's no way he can live there forever. As for the doctor zombie, it could represent him feeling trapped and adapting. This could be why he released the zombie before he leaves, because he himself is no longer trapped.

Okay don't quote me on this but my middle school English professor once told me that one of the reasons why we don't tend to like the sound of our own voice is because it's a trait that helps us crave the sound of other people voices instead of settling for our own in a case of isolation

God I hate how zombies just never starve to death in movies, while the survivours main issues is always food.

As someone else said, this isn't really a zombie movie. It's a movie using zombies as metaphors (which is why things seems off, like no military and no other people and no planes). It's riddled with metaphors and symbols. The character does a lot of things that a person trying to move on does. He even talks about how he feels to his "zombie doctor", who gives random zombie reactions. He even meets Sarah, like a rebound relationship and she tells him he has to go. Metaphor wise, she's like a rebound relationship that he killed or even a past relationship OR if we wanted to be more symbolic she could be just that; a symbol telling him there's more out there (hence her photos of a loving family, showing him what he can have). Yes, I stand by the entire movie being a metaphore for moving on from an old toxic relationship and coming back from the dead and depression and letting go.

The girl is probably his desire to leave and the trapped infected is probably his sentiment of being trapped in the building, as for the burning of the tape is the realization that he must move on

When I got covid earlier this year, I was stuck in my house completely alone for 2 weeks. I already suffer from very minor hallucinations related to some mental health issues I have (just tiny things like "oh it felt like someone poked me" or "I just heard my dog walk around but he's asleep next to me") and by day 6 I was sleeping with a knife under my pillow because multiple times I thought someone had broken into my house and had to convince myself that no one had. Isolation is insane. Keep in mind, 6 days of completely 0 contact with anybody.

My best attempt at the deciphering of the symbolism in the movie with very limited context. The movie is symbolizing the process of a breakup, how it can feel like the end of the world sometimes. The main character begins with the breakup, demanding to have what he had before they were together. After getting his past back, he isolates himself, seeing the world as a dangerous and horrible place. He begins listening to the tapes of himself which represent his internal thoughts, and the zombie doctor I think is just a therapist. The young woman who gets shot represents the potential for a new relationship but because of his past trauma, he acts defensively and kills his chance at a new relationship. From this he fantasizes about what could have been and dwells on it until it helps him get through his reluctance to leave, as his fear of solitude has overpowered his desire for it. Also the drums I think are him acting out and wanting attention, after being isolated for so long he will do whatever it takes to get attention, sort of causing the world to be scary when it starts becoming safe again. (also I think the fact that he is in his exes house might represent their relationship as a whole, having to find the strength to leave the relationship even after she left a long time ago)

The first part where the zombies shambling up the steps when they hear his voice made me more nervous than any zombie movie I've ever seen.

Making the Zombies in this completely silent adds so much terror

I once spent a winter in PA by myself for a little over a month. Communicating to family only through text messages. I had a broken leg and had very little movement. Very slow internet, could do my streaming, and worst no heat. I had electricity but the house heat through gas and the tank was empty. This was around 2010. After week 3 I found myself talking to myself, a habit I have never dropped. About week 4 I started singing everything I was doing or feeling. Around this time I developed a deep paranoia of any movement of sound outside the window. I kept that paranoia for years afterward. It wasn't till family came up to the house that I talked to them that I noticed my voice was harsh and my throat hurt. My own voice scared me as it has noticed that while I was talking to myself all that time I actually wasn't saying anything. I had not spoken for at least 2 weeks but in my painkiller fueled delirium I was imagining my own voice. Made me a stronger man but fuck I wouldn't go through that hell again.

If I had to take a gander, the movie is about Sam's inability to take charge of his own life. Even when the zombie apocalypse happened, he pretty much sat around and did nothing productive. He didn't even bother to look for his own family. Fake Sarah was that voice in his head that's telling him to do something. It wasn't until he looked through Sarah's things and saw she was actively doing stuff that he decided to take action. He was propelled by guilt to finally move on with life.

I think the doctor shows how his own mind seems to be adapting to the apocalypse or the absolute loneliness of the apartment building, the doctor learns and evolves unlike Sarah who wanted to run away, which makes her human. So Sarah is human because of her will to be free while the doctor is infected/ a zombie because he has fully adapted to the new way of life. Burning all the cassettes probably is a metaphor for Sam to burn away his past and learning to adapt while running in the new world. Idk i might be wrong it's just how i thought of it

The keys in the security office are spare keys that the landlord keeps incase the tenants lose theirs or don't return their copies or if they need to let the cops into the apartment for some reason. It's not just a Europe thing landlords here in the US do this too. It's more expensive to make a new key or replace the locks than it is to make a copy.

Sam's inability to move forward was a subtext. He couldn't move on with his ex, he couldn't leave that place, it's when she died that he decided to move forward

I lived alone at my parents ranch for winter/fall one year and it started to really get to me. I would hear people whisper my name sometimes. Totally freaked me out and I realized it was time to go.

Remember, zombies are attracted to noises, so be silent and deadly, like a fart. Also knock on doors to see if there's zombies inside

Goes to bed and then wakes up to find the world ended while he was catching Zs! That will never not be a creepy twist.

"The doctor is starting to have human like responses now, like, even more so than normal", is a line that should not have made me laugh as much as it did.

He looks like a real human. I doubt anybody irl would be able to go full rambo stabbing and dropping corpses off of balconies like nothing. I really like that.

the first thing you do is to be very quiet and check every room before you start scavenging, also you should conserve ammo as best you can in a zombie apocalypse. So it would be far more preferable to have a knife that’s taped to a pole so you can kill the infected from a distance.🤔🐱

I’ve seen this movie twice. Never noticed that door shaking at the start of the film.

Sam hallucinates a woman he barely met as being a vocalist to match his music, that she's essentially 'perfect' for him and ends up representing his subconscious desire for companionship and freedom. When he burns his tapes it represents him moving on from the past, which he has essentially been clinging to by listening to his missing family. When he tries to get the cat, he's also trying to get companionship (and then in turn getting an infection and killing said cat in his anger) (or maybe he thinks its a mercy killing). He keeps the doctor in the elevator because he's so starved for attention and companionship he will take talking to a dead man, and probably, when the doctor begins to respond more human, it's just Sam imagining it like he imagined Sara to cope with the isolation. That, and it likely ties in with his descent into madness (his infection). The more human the doctor = the closer to zombie Sam is.

My best interpretation is that the movie is an allegory for his emotional baggage with his ex, hence why he can't leave the building. The zombie in the elevator represents his desire to stay rotting in the past, and his hallucination of Sarah is the desire to move on. When he burns the tapes, and later the apartment he finally rids himself of his baggage, frees his trapped self and moves on. That's just my interpretation, though.

Europe person here: its common for appartement complex to have a janitor/security/repair guy. They actually live in the complex and take care of the building. Those appartement complexes are all rented space aswell. They also have a master key i think

Great breakdown! You mentioned wanting to know if certain characters/scenes were symbolic of something. Well, here's my take, just from what I saw in your summary: -the Doctor is a representation of his inability and fear of trying to escape. First, it being a zombie, representing what he fears most right now, second being that it's the only one "confined" that he talks to, and also how it seems to humanize over the course of the movie could be representing the worst outcome: him turning, trapped with nowhere to go for help. -the girl (despite being dead the whole time) represents his hope for escaping, and the last fragments of his humanity (more in the social/psyche sense, not physical). He Imprinted onto her character his hopes of escape and finding others, and did so until he could, somewhat, come to terms with the reality of the situation, at which point he finally realizes she's been dead this whole time. -the burning of the tapes, like most scenes like it, represents him letting go of the past and his old mindset ("can't leave, this is the safest place"), and finally choosing to, literally and figuratively, move on. This is also represented with how he releases the doc, and how the doc wanders into his previous sanctuary (leaving behind the old mindset, and pushing forward with a new one) Hope this helped!

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A man outright refuses to socialize at a party. His ex tells him to talk to people and reminds him that he left her. He witnesses people be dangerous and hurt others so he stays inside. The closest thing to a real relationship is talking to some old guy neighbor that he always catches in the elevator. When he gets an opportunity to truly connect with someone else, he blows his shot (heh) and hurts them out of fear that they'd hurt him. Fantasizes about this woman being some emotional savior and telling him he can't stay in one place forever and needs to move on. Burns what made him desire to be there in the first place. Makes himself vulnerable by letting the old neighbor in, pleasantly surprised that he was not hurt like he's seen other people be hurt. Takes the advice of his fantasy and moves on, saving himself.

Please discuss the show "Day 5" about a "illness" that will kill you if you fall asleep. It's not to bad of a show that few have seen. Thanks and love your videos😊

I mean you're very right about making your surroundings look better. It literally saves me from hitting depression.

I actually think you're pretty spot on mostly with your narrative analysis. Going to his ex gf's for the tapes, not trying to escape while listening to the tapes, and the other metaphors you're seeing I would say are telling a story about how staying in one place surrounded by the dead past is not healthy. The corpses and zombies around him are good representations of the old, unimportant vestiges of a life that he is refusing to let go of. Even without the zombies, the act of going to an ex girlfriend's house in an uncomfortable social setting because his tapes are so important and then allowing himself to suffer further discomfort and indignities indicates that this character is clinging on to the past life he had and is more willing to suffer the slow rot of stagnation than the shorter and more passing suffering that is needed to move on. Your observation is legit my dood, you may not have fleshed it out in great detail but you were pretty on target👍 you're not as bad at it as you think you are

I thought you already did this movie but then I realized it was a different channel. And yes, the ending is symbolic. His past kept him anchored in place, and he needed to abandon his attachment to his past and focus on the future instead.

Maybe the virus is airborne, but there are people (like our protagonist and the girl) who are immune to the airborne strain, but can still be infected by bites, like what we have in Project Zomboid with Knox Infection?

for the keys the answer is that the security room is most likely the workroom for the appartment caretaker. They would 100% be in a safe normally and are there in case the tenants lose their keys or a emergency so the caretaker can let in the police or so on.

I wonder why in all of these zombie outbreaks zombies aren't just like eating food off of shelves. Why do they always seem to go after people? I think it would be much more realistic and probably actually even more terrifying to have the outbreak start with what people think are just widespread riots but then progress into a zombie outbreak because people don't recognize the threat

If there's an allegory I'd say it's about depression and how at times he wants to live and makes smart, thought out choices. And when he's careless even if it's subconscious that's is his depression trying to make him fail

@Roanoke Gaming, Theory Question: What if is was a virus or bacteria that started with little to no effects and spread, but a pulse like a solar flare somehow activated it to turn most people overnight? With few people unaffected by just natural immunity.

8:52 usually if you're renting the place there are spare keys in security office so they can open your door in emergencies

I think subtext was Sam not getting over his ex and his older life and that's why he was so adamant about getting his tapes. Burning the tapes was like his first steps to moving on with his life and leaving his old life behind him. Sarah stood for the same , the idea of moving forward with life while the elevator zombie was like the reverse idea. Stagnation in comfort not willing to move forward

“More than I deserve” Roanoke, people watch your content because we enjoy it, and we like you as a person, you definitely deserve it man!

i think the zombie doctor is almost like his paranoia being "safe" in the apartment building and the girl is like his will to live.

I have ALWAYS complained about people clearing buildings. Make a bunch of noise! It just makes no sense to sneak in to a building potentially full of zombies, just to be sneak attacked by a horde, when I could literally just bang on the walls and attract the zombies inside. And if it pulls a horde too big to handle, *good*, that means I don't want to be in there anyways! Be stealthy when the situation calls for it, but I'll be damned if I think every room in a house should be checked silently. Love the video, good stuff.

I don’t know anything about French gun laws but if it’s anything like the UK or Sweden, I have no idea how that old man was able to get his hands on a “double barrel force multiplier” when he lives in a flat/apartment in the middle of a city

My assumption was that it is an airborne virus, and some people are just immune, and in the case of the family, both parents would be immune and passed that to their kids.

Can I just say that I could listen to your voice forever? I don’t know the proper word for it, but it’s very soothing yet engaging. Hope you have a great day!

If you are interested in checking out a manga or a book (as a momentary change of pace from movies and video games), I would love to see you cover Guts from Berserk and try to figure out just what lucky genetic dice have to be rolled for him to do even half the things he does, Pre-Eclipse of course, since there be some magical nonsense after that event. Alternatively, I also would love to see you take a look at the Blackwing Virus from Star Wars: Death Troopers, the only true horror story in that IP as far as I know.

I imagine sarah and the doctor represent his grief, loneliness, and desperation, granted he is likely clinically insane by this point so I imagine its his last grip on humantiy trying to breakthrough, the part of his brain that still wants a reason to continue and not loose a grip on himself

Sarah is a representation of a rebound after a relationship, this whole movie is basically describing what it’s like moving on after relationships, the party representing how it’s hard to make friends because of the break up, he may have lost them after been broken up with Fanny

His subconscious mind is doing what it's supposed to. Trying to keep him alive by any means necessary. The apathy a situation like that can cause would be powerful, overwhelming perhaps, to a lone mind. The sequence where he is hallucinating her is his subconscious fighting with the stubborn and equally great fear he has of leaving. Of finding out what he thinks he knows, but is afraid to confirm. The thing that pushed him to confront himself in such a way, was probably the unintentional killing of the girl. It was an accident. He couldn't cope. He also knew that staying there longer, he would go mad and starve. This was the last ditch effort of his subconscious, primal mind, to save his life. Edit: letting go of fear, the past. Embracing hope that he gained from knowing the girl had survived, etc, etc. that's the basics of what I saw. There is more that could be said, but I hope it addresses your question @20:00. Thanks for the video. I enjoy your breakdowns and video style.

can we just appreciate the editing ? S tier meme comedy, this guy is my favorite Big Brain Genius on the internet man hes hilarious while trying to keep things grounded in reality. props man you deserve more attention for your efforts

I would love to see an apocalypse film with competent and rational survivors. The only horror film i can recall with genuine smart people and rationale is the thing Im also extremely introverted, but i love being with friends and family, so even if i were isolated like Sam id be ok for a while but id genuinely struggle

I have to say, what a heart breaking movie. Reminds me of a zombie apocalypse of Cast Away but much more depressing.

15:02 It should have take him out. SCREW YOU SAM!! WHAT KIND OF MONSTER KILLS A CAT?!

Fairly sure that "Security office" was like the local Super intendent or something , it's usually like a handyman that lives in the same building , and are trusted by the owner of the building to have spare keys to all the apartments for inspection, repair and other legal reasons.

I instantly loved this movie when they made the zombies silent

When it was revealed Sarah was dead the whole time I literally cried. I cannot imagine living in a world like this I'm not mentally capable of such an existence, gosh depression is in many ways the biggest threat to humanity

My theory is that whatever virus in this movie was (biological weapon, alien virus, new virus etc, etc) could've been around than just one night, I remember your Maze Runner video that you did explaining the resistance people had against the flare virus. What if it's something like that? The virus had already hit, say maybe a week ago and it the average persons immune system held out but not without inflicting some sort of damage to the brain, which is why his ex was so insufferable and why the new boyfriend didn't just clock Sam to begin with, it might even explain why the dad didn't just speed off right away, why the girl didn't just announce her presence or why Sam was an idiot during the events of this movie. On top of that, whatever the virus, I want to say it's a very infectious airborne strain targeted towards humans only, which is why the cat is fine, Sam might as well be immune to a degree but not without some damage to the brain. That's probably what happened in that room with the pounding and screaming the night prior, probably getting down and dirty and halfway surprise one of them just so happens to turn mid act, and from there it went on. I would want to add that it's probably also similar to the last of us with society collapsing overnight, with people probably turning without having to get bitten because the virus was already in their system it just took a while for anything to actually happen

He was going crazy from loneliness and he killed the only living things to come his way, twice. Talk about a new level of self-destructive behaviour.

Alfred is a hallucination, This is MC's way of dealing with his animalistic side. He felt trapped, caged. Him releasing Alfred is him setting himself free from his own prison. That's why Alfred doesn't attack and you don't see him again.

The security office is the concierge office/home. In some buildings concierge are hired by the tenants to care for the communal spaces, to clean the halls and do general repair work. In exchange, the concierge gets to have his/her own flat on the ground floor. That's also where the spare keys to each flat are kept

23:41 yeah I can totally agree when I was in the hospital to repair my leg at some point during the time I was there. I turned to look at my window that was reflected and said “what are you looking at” then I look at a mirror that to my nine o clock and said the same thing and i kept this up for fifteen minutes before cracking up laughing

The keys in the office are duplicates, in case the building needs to get in to do maintenance or you lose your copy. It's more of a convenience thing. The food isn't that weird, considering most security offices tend to be manned close to all the time, so having some food on hand during the night shift is just smart. Also yes, the French would absolutely seek out wine before caloric intake. There are also functioning amenities weeks later because Europe isn't America.

I loved this movie and I'm so happy you decided to cover it!

the reason the father doesnt drive away 6:36 is because the wife was going to be the one driving. the steering wheel is on the left side in France. so i guess the wife was the driver in the family.

So about the keys, they could be spare keys but another realistic option (one that I've experienced firsthand) is that they keys are kept in the building as a *fire safety tool.* Let me explain; so to make sure everyone gets out of the building in a fire emergency whoever is at the front desk (or security office in this case) will grab all the keys and leave, then log who is out of the building (Since you leave the keys with them when you leave, all the keys they have are for rooms that will have nobody inside.) that way when they do a head count to see who has come out of the building they'll know if a particular room is either a: empty or b: has a passed out potential resident in it.

Hey Roanoke, Social Scientist here, with focus on Media and Information. The burning of the tapes does have a huge significance when it comes to the human condition. Media, is a powerful trigger for memory and a basic building block of the modern human being’s identity. Think about it, there are tunes of music that will trigger one’s memories immediately, there is a reason why we like to keep photos or videos of loved one’s. The ground us, they connect us, they keep us who we are. Media, and in this case the tapes, are an anchor to his personality and a big reason of why he does not venture away. In normal times, these anchors can keep us safe, keep us okay with our daily life. Yes, some memories can also move us to action and do extraordinary things, but they are still grounded on the triviality of life. For example I have studied the behavior of people during extreme weather events, and family bonds kept them going through truly apocalyptic aftermath. But, going back to the movie, the reason why he burns the tapes is because he has to break away from his rooted personality (Which we also see on the preamble of the movie at the party) These tape where an anchor keeping him safe, but ultimately dooming him, the visions of the girl, where that engine, he did not wanted to admit she was dead, and all the time this vision encouraged him to move, to go, to break away. In a way, he is like the trapped doctor, but unlike the zombie, his cage is self-imposed, while the zombie is trying to move from a cage it doesn’t want, to the one it longs for. (For the zombie… I think your analysis is really spot on, but maybe an animal behaviorist might be able to explain better its demeanor.) So, thinking about this, the tapes, these bits of media anchored to memories, anchored him to be safe and anchored him to be doomed, but to escape he had to break it, so once everything came to terms with his companion ghost, and seeing the out with the gear… he breaks it, lets go of this precious cargo slowing him down, choosing his future, uncertain as it is, instead of an assured doom. I really liked this movie… and as a side note… I stopped rooting for the guy when he killed the cat….

Eh I guess they took the French option of letting the zombies take over

A hotel or apartment building will usually keep a copy of a room or apartment key. This is for safety and health purposes, such as if a tenant hasn't exited their room for a particularly long period of time. It's done in the U.S. as well.

My favorite interpretation of this film is that it’s less of a zombie movie and more of a break up movie. And I think that excuses a lot of the more reckless decisions

I would love to see more movies, not unlike this, where a random person is in a situation where they can survive for several weeks without going anywhere; how the deal, and what they do BUT I want them looked over by proper sensible people for anything from basic dumbness to general inconsistencies.

I noticed that whenever a Force Multiplier goes off and it's not the climax, any smart moves are forgotten in a lot of movies.

French person here. So this office is the "concierge" office. It's your do-everything-man in older French building. They live for free on the property (but the pay is trash). They are responsible for package delivery, arranging for workers to come in the building, and having a copy of your keys in case a worker needs to be let in or you lost your key.

I saw your video on my feed and decided to watch the movie before your video. I have got to say, Sam is a very human character. Between his immediate response to the trashed apartment to his ultimate decision about the self-terminated elderly couple his actions make him a very real character in my book.

a lot of apartments and larger building in america have whats called a firebox that has all the keys in it so firemen can get through the building. Most of the time it's just faster to use the axe though.

Happy to hear you’re on Spotify. You’ve got my follow. So happy to see you doing well with your channels and podcasts.

Cat droppings in the toilet spreading that parasite is a new unlocked fear of mine

I live in Ohio. As a former apartment maintenance man, all keys are stored in the leasing office. Renters are given a duplicate. Um you never rent a place before bro?

I just watched this flick and thought it was a great. Somewhat resembles a lot of where 28 weeks later picks up. On 28 weeks later, the ending shows the zombies runing towards the Eiffel tower which in the night eats the world starts of in Paris..it had a lot of the same structure as 28 days later and the walking dead.. so with that I kindda imagine since the zombies are now in Paris, now we get to see the same story as in 28 days later but the after math of 28 weeks later left of. So I think this is supose to be 28 months later, in the down low, now on a new character's perspective. I found this movie more realistic than any other Zombie flick. The silence of the zombies makes this more intense

YEAH I quite enjoy this movie and I think I've recommended you check it out twice, glad to see it. I've always assumed his nosebleed and passing out was him being infected with the virus but being somewhat immune. I also assume it was airborne considering how quick it was. I'm gonna guess there's 3 reactions to people getting infected. 1. Turn instantly. 2. No effect. 3. Passing out. But anybody killed by an infected is turned.

From 9:47 - 10:05 I chose option A: Open The Doors instead of B: being a complete idiot because being a idiot can cause a non-combative mistake that you can NEVER retry to fix like getting bit by an infected because you simply forgot to close the door behind you when you search, trying NOT to make noise, especially if the infected are known to be silent.

I believe that the zombie represents his need for social contact and companionship like you said. and Sarah represents his subconscious mind telling him he needs to escape because he is in constant threat of being eaten by zombies/the fear of mutilation, and he only gets ready to leave because the infected get inside and then his self preservation instincts finally kick in and his mind that is slowly going insane is no longer fully in control so he is less irrational

you know its a good day when Roanoke posts and you get to find out about hypothetical diseases that may or may not be your end

I could get used to having these back to back.

this is one of my favorite zombie movies of all time i’m so happy you covered it