28 Days Later story
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland, and starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson. Synopsis: Four survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic cope with the destruction of the lives they once knew while evading those infected by the virus.
12 total · 4 choice · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. monster | choice | The four survivors were left to fend for themselves in a Great Britain overrun with roving bands of zombies. |
| monster apocalypse | choice | The story is about Britain being completely and utterly overrun by voracious, human-flesh eating zombies. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | choice | The story follows four survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic as they try to survive in a Great Britain now populated by roving zombies and at least one one band of soldiers hold up in a fortified mansion. |
| zombie | choice | People infected by the "Rage" virus quickly turned into mindless zombies. |
| human vs. captivity | major | The three survivors were held against their will by the former soldiers in a fortified mansion. They made efforts to end their captivity after it became apparent that the two females among them were to serve as the soldier's sex slaves. |
| human-made pandemic | major | The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus called "Rage" having utterly decimated the population of Great Britain, and in all likelihood the entire world. |
| lawless anarchy dystopia | major | The three survivors became trapped in a fortified compound run by former soldiers that served as a microcosm of the social breakdown of a society. Overwhelmed by the pandemic and resulting hoards of roving zombies, the soldiers let their respect of the rule of law fall to the wayside and behaved in a most barbarous fashion. For example, they went about luring female survivors of the pandemic into sexual slavery. |
| romantic love | major | Jim and Selena's romantic feelings for one another boiled over throughout the course of the film. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Hanna had to come to grips with the fact that the soldiers shot her virus infected father to death and that he was not coming back. |
| coping with the death of one's entire family | minor | Jim lamented that he'd lost both parents and his sister to the virus. |