People’s Review VII: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

In the People’s Vault, your Media Commissar dusted off a classic of capitalist propaganda. The zombie movie genre is dominated by films of upper middle class folk running away from the unwashed masses of mindless zombiefolk. This film is no exception.

The film starts off in the idyllic suburban bourgeois community. The decadence is unmistakable. Before you know what is going on, the proletariat is climbing in your window. They are snatching your people up. The sympathetic middle class family is forced to hide their kids, wife and husband as the proletariat is eating everybody up there. Panic stricken, the bourgeois family goes to the one safe haven of capitalist society, the shopping mall.

Unfortunately for our heroes, the mall has also been overrun by the proletariat. After brutally beating a few innocent workers with the help of a few criminally negligent security guards, the capitalists hunker down. Soon, the proletariat mass has them surrounded as the zombies attempt to free the heroes from their capitalist obsessions. Bad news arrives as more survivors arrive at the capitalist haven. The proletariat has overrun the nearby military base. The group descends into wallowing self-pity and romance. After a few more losses, the bourgeois get serious about saving themselves. They prepare a homemade assault vehicle to kill as many of the hard working proletariat protesting for their rights outside as possible. Their plan hits a snag when their gun totting friend runs low on supplies. Their attempt to get him food goes awry and the spoiled teenager in the group goes blood drunk and drives a van into the side of a building. Many lives are sacrificed to save the young capitalist fool.

In a running scene of carnage and gore, improvised bombs are used to decimate the proletariat. The proletariat makes a glorious stand as the capitalist flee to a boat to make their escape. The capitalists’ greed nearly cost them their life as they make the hour long boat ride to a nearby island. Once there in the weakened state, the capitalist are finally defeated by the proletariat mob.

The films depictions as the working class uprising as being fueled by cannibalistic excess and disease belittles the true aim at bringing down the bourgeois capitalist state. The film portrays their ultimate success at over-running the fat lazy bourgeois. Along the way the proletariat is seen as cruel, heartless, and brainless. The bourgeois slant to the film is classically undeniable.

Ratings:

Capitalist Slant: 8/10 While the capitalist state falls, the proletariat are a bunch of mindless zombies.

Proletariat death count 10/10 As the proletariat takes heavy casualties throughout the film.

People's Recommendation: Avoid and denounce for the Capitalist Propaganda that it is!