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For such a bleak story in such a bleak setting, the movie looks really good (in such a bleak kind of way). I wouldn't go so far as to say it looks particularly artistic, but it certainly has a good go at it. The cinematography is great as well though, with some inspiring imagery created with interesting uses of composition and lighting. It's obviously been a number of years since the initial outbreak, so the city is overrun with trees and shrubbery. The apocalyptic landscape on display is one of the most convincing apocalyptic landscapes I've seen, created by putting the overgrown scenery of Chernobyl across London's skyline. The CGI present is subtle and sparingly used, preferring to use and merge in-camera footage instead. Okay, that's exactly what it is, but it doesn't mean they scrimped out on the film's visual quality. I figured it would just be another low-budget English production. I was hugely surprised by the visual sufficiency of The Girl with All the Gifts. As zombie concepts go, this one is certainly one of the creepiest, and actually has a precedent in nature as well. Being a fungal infection though, there's more than just one stage, and the next stage holds the potential for the end of humanity. Their primary sense is smell, allowing the soldiers to mask themselves with a blocking gel and enabling them to carefully navigate through the hordes without being detected. They're caused by a fungal infection that completely takes over the brain and replaces it with the insatiable need to eat. The zombies themselves take a leaf out of The Last of Us. Who she is, why she's important, and why she's treated the way she is is left mysterious for quite some time. It's not long before her curiosity gets the better of her and she finds herself topside in a military base surrounded by hungry hordes, strapped to an examination table. She's treated with fear, curiosity, and love from various different military personel. Melanie also gets little logic problems from one of the doctors. She and many other children are wheeled off to a makeshift classroom where they're taught the periodic table and Greek mythology, before they're each returned to their individual cells. The film opens with Melanie, a very polite young girl, strapping herself into a wheelchair at gunpoint. Nice iteration of a "really smart" zombie film. The scenes without her are weak, the scenes with her are wonderful. Sennia IS the film - she practically picks it up and carries it to the finish line. If you check the IMDb reference, you will see that the young girl so brilliantly played by Sennia Nanua is given billing lower down on the cast list. And the director often seems confused about who the real star is? Ditto for the PR dept of the studio. Which is not to suggest that the last hour is bad, merely that the first half-hour is drop-dead stunning and unforgettable. For example, the first 30 minutes are better (more impact, more empathy, more entertaining) than the last 60 minutes. It reminded me of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN 1957, the first legitimate A-list sci-fi that, like this film, started off in what seemed a traditional manner - and then went down a plot superhiway that no one had ever seen before. Which is why it is always a treat when a film comes along that throws the script template out the window and forges its own path. As a prolific reviewer, you tend to often discuss a film in terms of traditional arcs, and riffs off those same arcs.
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