The zombie apocalypse that started in year 2034 due to an unknown phenomena has brought the world to total collapse. Yet, China and its closed allies (North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos and the Soviet Union 2 Electric Boogladoo) have successfully maintained state power and infrastructure to a degree that is livable.
Some might call it a triumph of authoritarian rule against democracies, the latter having plunged into chaos, just like video-games and popular series have depicted it. But the draconian measures taken by China in their “Preservation and eradication plan” should give you chills.
Severe lockdowns and coordinate censorship to prevent mass contamination have been deployed. The people liberation army orchestrated every aspect of citizens life like getting food safely and building hospitals. Railway workers worked non-stop to ferry huge amount of refugees. An anonymous source told the China Bad Times that after working six hours a day for four day they “crushed their pinky toe and ot hurted really bad”
At the end of the fay, China might have preserved human civilization locally but the damage done to human spirit and freedom are irreversible.
Curious what zombie art would look like coming out of a socialist country. Different themes and motifs, surely.
Watched The Sadness recently out of the “ROC”. It was pretty good I thought, though rather vile and disturbing. It shows the president getting brutally murdered while giving a televised speech of meaningless platitudes while hiding like a coward and doing fuckall. It can be viewed as another standard criticism of muh human nature, but I saw it more as a critique of Taiwanese and otherwise liberal reaction to Covid and an individualistic cultural sickness.
May not be so exciting or dramatic a movie wherein an efficient socialist state response destroys the zombies outright and actually works to protect the citizenry lol. Would still be quite a nice subversion of tropes.