At the beginning of the film, Pitt suddenly adopts a child, Tommy, whose Spanish-speaking parents were turned into zombies moments before. Thierry, the man who helps coordinate some of Pitt’s travel around the world, is so-called black, but his role is little more than a few supporting seconds on a few occasions.

Word War Z revolves around a privileged white male. The United Nations’s Army and doctors are virtually all white and male. World War Z is another “mighty whitey” film: Women and non-whites need a white man for survival. If something like this had happened once – okay, but come on. įor example: Pitt is in the vault with the disease they need to make a vaccination: Why isn’t there a phone (like there was right outside of the room) or an intercom system connected to the security camera where the people running the lab could tell him what to get? There isn’t a phone because we are to believe that Pitt finds the correct vial out of hundreds all on his own, even though his character does not have medical training. In fact, he is almost the only character in the film. Slight tweaks in many of the scenes would have added a sense of logic or morality but would have provided fewer glamor shots of Pitt. Writers do everything possible to make Pitt (aka Gerry Lane) a god-like hero. We can quickly deconstruct any number of scenes in World War Z. World War Z revolves around Brad Pitt at the expense of any possible logical development. Like we really need another zombie film with nothing new, nothing except mug shots of Pitt that is. The aggressive force is a virus that transforms healthy humans into zombie-like beings 10 seconds after they are bitten.

In reality, World War Z portrays a war that very quickly takes over 4 billion lives on several continents. Otherwise, maybe a massive eruption of people “at the bottom” in a war with wide-spread poverty like nothing imaginable today. (“Worse” is in quotations marks because the historian in me, especially after reading Micol Seigel’s article “Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn,” does not like to compare historical moments or peoples and make value judgments – its relationships that matter.) I expected a nuclear war – though that would be an ultra sensitive topic. I envisioned something “worse” than the world has seen before. With a name like World War Z and the strong connotations associated with the words “world war,” I expected World War Z to be a war in some way related to world wars that have actually happened. Film Still from World War Z From Google Images For a fairly crowded theater, I have never seen it empty as quickly as it did yesterday.īeware – spoilers follow. World War Z is a poor movie that boosts Brad Pitt, racism, and sexism.

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