The film, starring Martin Freeman, is a perfect example that intimate stories are also a good resource in projects with the living dead involved.
The Walking Dead He managed, at a certain point in his serial life, to leave the zombies in the background and focus on very human stories. Some of the best episodes in fiction are precisely those: the chapters in which the living dead are just a backdrop and conflicts arise from personal relationships. The Walking Dead isn’t the only zombie project that has proven the value of more intimate stories, the film Post also.
Postdirected by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, stars Martin Freeman and follows a man who has 48 hours to get his daughter to safety after being bitten by a zombie.
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Post is set in Australia and premiered on Netflix – still available on the platform – in 2020. In addition to the drama of the protagonist, there is also that of Thoomian Aboriginal girl played by Simone Landers who is caught by a man who uses her as bait. Paradoxically, this young woman is the protagonist’s only hope to save her daughter.
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Unlike other titles of the genre, in which action is a crucial element, Post it’s a quiet survival drama with little blood and many moments of endless tragedy. His story will destroy you completely and, as our colleagues point out Film Starts, is one of the best of the genre in recent years. They even describe it as “little zombie masterpiece”.
General critics also approved this story with flying colors. Post It has a score of 87% in Rotten Tomatoes and the specialized press highlighted that it is a “refreshing” approach to the zombie genre. Of Freeman’s performance, he stressed that the actor is “excellent” like his character.
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