Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies is a zombie-filled romantic comedy based on the book by Isaac Marion. The story is about R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie with dry humor who wanders through the streets (like zombies usually do) waiting and searching for emotion. Emotion that he gets from eating human brains, but that he wryly admits to being conflicted about.

While hunting for humans to eat, R and his zombie pals stumble upon Julia (Teresa Palmer) and her friends. They were sent out from behind the walls of a compound where other humans live to search for medicine on the other side of the wall where the zombies live.

*SPOILERS*

R eats Julia's boyfriend's brain so that he does not rise up as a zombie, as well because the brain is "the best part." Then they fall in love and la la la la la.

Thoughts

This end-of-the-world movie came a bit too late, you know, since the world didn't end, but it was still tear worthy. The tear worthiness did not come from the acting, but the plot and the message it brought with it.

I don't know when it happened, but after I had gotten a few laughs off of the dry humor of R's death-life, I realized this movie was depicting becoming human.

Little by little, R would try harder than any human to reach out to others. He was trying his hardest to become human for Julia. It brought tears to my eyes when he played music and he would close his eyes in an attempt to feel something, anything.

He would take pictures of Julia and things because as Julia explained, "this may be the last time you see them."

Don't get me wrong, this movie piled on the cheesiness like you wouldn't believe. Everyone was rolling their eyes so much that they might as well have stayed in the back of their heads. But yet, the emotions, at least for me with all of the horrible acts that I see on the news every day, came from the concept of becoming a little more humane each day. Of trying your hardest to be a good person. Trying your hardest to control your dark nature and instead reach out a hand to someone who may be your enemy, but is also just as human as you or in this case just as human as you want to be.