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Wednesday was full of windang and warla
moments, hence the decision to watch a feel-good movie just to cap off the
night on a better note. I’ve always thought of watching Jonathan Levine’s Warm
Bodies after seeing its charming trailer but no one’s available to accompany
me. Of course, I could always choose to watch it alone, being the semi-wallflower
me. But then again, in hopes of sharing future pop culture references and quotable
quotes from the movie, I deem it better to watch it with a friend. So when Kuya
Paulie asked me to accompany him, I said yes right away. Ate Anna tagged along.
Haha.
As said, the movie banks on its charms and
supposed unique storyline. It’s branded as a zom-rom-com (i.e. zombie romantic
comedy for those who don’t know yet) based on Isaac Marion’s novel of the same
name. The story begins with a narration from the movie’s central character, R
(Nicholas Hoult)—a highly unusual zombie. He walks the audience through—from the
epidemic that wiped almost all of mankind, driving the uninfected to live holed
up in a walled community while the undead are left roaming outside their
stronghold to the ruins of that once glorious world. He doesn’t anything from
the life he lived before becoming undead. The only thing he remembers was that
his name begins with R. He’s tired and bored of everything so one day, together
with his undead best friend, M, and a band of other zombies they set of to look
for food. They found their prey in an abandoned laboratory—a gang of teenagers
looking for supplies in the zombie side of the world. In a matter of seconds,
the zombies ate their fill of flesh; and in that same moment, R gets an unusual
feeling after seeing one girl firing madly at them—Julie (Teresa Palmer). The
rest of the movie follows how R saves Julie from his fellow zombies and how
they might actually find a cure for the undead.
The movie’s plot definitely takes to heart
Rihanna’s We Found Love in a Hopeless Place. The idea of falling in love with a
vampire (read: Bella and Edward) and eventually transforming yourself into one
just so you’d be together forever was already unbelievable, let alone
developing warm, fuzzy feelings for the undead. It just doesn’t stand. But of
course, Warm Bodies’ witty plot gives us something to think about. I can’t help
but feel for R—he’s lonely and he needs a more ~responsive company. Everything
around him is bleak and grey and the only hope he found was a breathing and
sentient human being. Immediately, he shares his world to her and eventually
changes into something better—something he thought only the living can feel.
While there are clear allusions to
William Shakespeare’s immortal love story of Romeo and Juliet, I think what made Warm
Bodies a better movie was the fact that it did not bank on cheeseball moments
and cliché lines. We would always know that it’s a love story whose characters
are bound to get their dose of happy endings by the time the credits roll. And
of course, in times of dire need, love would always be the ready answer. But I
thought the film’s relatively fresher delivery in terms of storytelling and
script gives it an edge over other fictional love stories of the same genre.
I also felt that the feet-thumping soundtrack
adds some spark to the movie. It doesn’t overbear but careful, it’s going to be
your LSS for the rest of the week. Hahaha. Or that’s just me. Anyhoo, my
favorite song/s from the movie was Delta Spirit’s Yamaha, Bon Iver’s Hinnom,
TX, John Waite’s Missing You, Bruce Springsteen’s Hungry Heart and of course,
M83’s Midnight City. You might want to listen to them, so I’ll be posting the
videos here too.
Delta Spirit- Yamaha
Bon Iver- Hinnom, TX
John Waite- Missing You
Bruce Springsteen- Hungry Heart
M83- Midnight City
There’s a lot to love in Warm Bodies. Or maybe I
just like R too much. Hahaha!
They’re still in theaters, so you might want to
catch it for your post-Valentine cheber. Hahaha!
Happy weekend everyone! J
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| Who wouldn't love this guy? (Photo cred: ScreenRant) |
Labels: 2013, 21, crush alert, feel good, feelings, friday, movie review, music, nicholas hoult, pauso, warm bodies, windang wednesdays
