Short Film
Apr. 26th, 2013 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iaria"Cargo" - a Tropfest Australia 2013 Finalist.
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.
... okay, that made me tear up. Beautiful, moving and not something zombie related I've ever seen before. I really love it. There were two things at the end that I really liked: first, that the dad wrote Rose's name on her stomach. A small detail but with big impact (for me at least). Second, that we see the guys burying him in the background as the film ends. Before they found Rose he was just a zombie and they were going to leave him to rot. Finding Rose, seeing what he did to save her, humanised him. He went from zombie to a person, a father, a victim and so they accorded him the respect of burying him.
Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.
... okay, that made me tear up. Beautiful, moving and not something zombie related I've ever seen before. I really love it. There were two things at the end that I really liked: first, that the dad wrote Rose's name on her stomach. A small detail but with big impact (for me at least). Second, that we see the guys burying him in the background as the film ends. Before they found Rose he was just a zombie and they were going to leave him to rot. Finding Rose, seeing what he did to save her, humanised him. He went from zombie to a person, a father, a victim and so they accorded him the respect of burying him.
