After a few months of releases without remarkable peaks, finally here is the film that gives a shock to the electrocardiogram of the cinephile! 28 years later Of Danny Boyle It is a gift to be enjoyed in one breath. Zombie film, yes, but above all quality cinema that goes beyond genres. From Visual and narrative power Totalizing, he is at the turn of a towering soundtrack that grabs every shred of heart and senses, bringing us inside.
From 18 June at the cinema distributed by Eagle Pictures, 28 years later It’s another enthusiastic “Wow!”, After that at the beginning of the year it was Emilia Pérez to excite us.
Much more than a sequel
The screenwriter Alex Garland (also director of the interesting Sci-Fi Ex machina) and the director Danny Boyle, who rarely misses a blow, return to the world created in 28 days later2002 Horror with Cillian Murphy.
The new film immerses us – in an almost physical sense – in an united kingdom devastated by the anger virus. But don’t worry: 28 years later It lives extraordinarily as a work in its own right, does not have references or weakness from sequel. It is not necessary to have seen the predecessor to totally enjoy a visceral and amazing cinematographic experience.
The two British order a script full of suspense, which inanella powerful sequences, of action and horror, but with iridescent of light: expanses of nature as loss of eye, moments of moving intimacy, rare and crackling comedy. From the beginning to the end, everything is impetuously engaging.
Boyle, former author of the cult Trainspottingof the black comedy Small murders between friendsof the drama from eight Oscars The Millionairereturns six years after his latest film Yesterday (2019), not very incisive. It is nice to see that his talent and imaginative creativity are still luxuriant.
The imaginary worlds of Boyle and Garland
In 28 years later The United Kingdom is prey to anger, which has transformed the infected into a sort of ravenous zombies. The survivors gathered to Stone (or Holy Island, in English), a small island on the north-eastern coast of England, real location and coveted tourist attraction.
Here a small community took refuge to keep the infection out. Garland and Boyle imagined a new world rebuilt after an apocalypse. Theirs is a slightly regressive and tribal vision, built around the order and iron rules to ensure that the virus remains outside.
There are no technologies on the island, there are no rifles but arrows, the fruits of the earth are the main sustenance: apples at will! In the midst of terror and torn bodies, it will be really fun when the little protagonist Spike (played by the debutant Alfie Williams) will come across with surprise in his first mobile phone (which, without charge, “soon it will be a brick”).
Holy Island is connected to the mainland, dripping with dangers but also of wonders, by a raised road, which can only be traveled with low tide.
The narration focuses on a family of the small island community. Jamie (Aaron Taylor Johnson), Spike’s father, is in a hurry that his son grows up and is ready to face the infected and his first killing. Isla (Jodie Comer), Spike’s mother, is in the sick bed, won by a strange mental confusion.
In the cast too Ralph Fiennes On which, for aversion to the spoiler, we do not add anything else.
Garland and Boyle’s imagination is in every original and effective in every moment, also in the evolution of the infected. There are the “lenses-low”, fat, crawling and humidicci. There are the “fast”, among which the “Alfa” stand out, more statuesque and intelligent. One of the Alfa is the mastodontic Samson: to make its actor Who Lewis-Parry2 meters high, even more physically threatening, the supervisor to the Flora Moody makeup and the special effects of the Makeup John Nolan special effects have designed a scar abdomen and added muscles along the back, increasing the proportions of 40%.
28 years later is a impressive author’s horror In every detail, in which the horror also mixes with geopolitics. The United Kingdom is quarantine from the rest of the world: that is, it is abandoned to itself. Meanwhile, outside, everyone continues their existence normally, unscathed. It is like in the “real world. There is a sort of ruthless and pragmatic dimension, in the way things happen when a nation collapses, “Garland observed. “In general, people not affected by the collapse ignore him and continue to live their lives.”
The use of the iPhone and innovative techniques
The recovery techniques confer on 28 years later An epic and immersive atmosphere. Boyle used several methods to make us feel part of the film, inside the scenes. He has set cameras on the actors, adopted special sensors, wanted structures that housed more cameras together, used drones and a wide variety of camera and objectives. This variety also included iPhone, reaching Using up to 20 at the same time.
He had three special rigs available for the sequences with the iPhones: one for eight smartphones, easy to transport from a single person, one for 10 pieces and another of 20.
Halfway through the film, there is a memorable sequence of pursuit that recreates a sort of bullet time through 20 iPhones arranged in line.
The director of photography DOD Mantle He spoke of “incorporating the audience through the goal, Danny and I love him.” “I want the audience to feel as if he were on the back of the lenses-low.”
Boyle also opted for a Widescreen format 2.76: 1usually used for epic films in IMAX or Ultra Panavision 70mm, such as The Hateful Eight Of Quentin Tarantino, Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan and the recent Sinners by Ryan Coogler. An effective choice that further increases the sensation of immersion.
Manufacturer Andrew Macdonald said: “We wanted to make a film with a unique epic scope.” Target centered.
