I'm really off my game. A gay zombie movie has been out for a whole year and I didn't know about it! I discovered Otto; or, Up With Dead People by mistake on Netflix and now I feel just like I did when I finally found my retainer in the garbage that one time at McDonald's - happy and grossed out.
Everyone knows zombies are just metaphors, but this movie keeps upping the ante. Zombies and the eating of flesh represent pretty much every societal ill the film can think of - disaffected youth, AIDS, porn stars, porn itself, schizophrenia, heteronormal culture, gays acting heteronormal, idolizing Che Guevara, getting dumped, pollution, unsafe one-night stands, the fashion industry, independent filmmakers, and that's just off the top of my head. There's also lot of gay sex, even a cock shot of one zombie fucking a hole he's eaten into the side of his boyfriend, who he just turned into another zombie. Even more profound is the dialog, which runs along the lines of the following: "Considering that all the dominant discourses are defined and controlled by the ruling class, the first step to being a revolutionary is to act out against any consensual reality."
Word. But I'm gonna stick to stealing the fancy hand soap bottles from the Ritz Carton's lobby bathroom instead of boning someone's pancreas.
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