When benchmarks have been made in a sub genre such as zombies I really love watching countries venture into genres for the first time and Israel has just done this with ANOTHER WORLD. Eitan Reuven is the director behind Israeli's first venture into zombies and you can see he is thinking about the international market in general despite opposition from Israeli Film Board who seem to be more interested in movies that can appear at Cannes Film Festival than which is a shame. Whilst in UK the right wing British government is closing down British Film Council which put British cinema back on the map, Israeli Film Board does everything not to support filmmakers because they want to be different!
Another World may not be the perfect movie but it shows Reuven is an passionite film fan like us all here and hopefully his zombie flick will show that passion through the movie.
The movie is a post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film. The setting is in a near post apocalyptic future where a biological warfare program goes wrong, and turns most of humanity to mindless, murderous creatures (hence forth - "infected").
There are five characters, which are still uninfected, trying to survive constant attacks by the infected. Each one of them represents in some way a different aspect of human existence, a different world-view, but most important, a different moral view about the world and his/her place in it -
The Colonel - A professional soldier. represents the political-military-economic establishment, which sees life as a constant violent struggle for power and resources.
The Doctor - Represents a commitment to love, justice and non-violent struggle against all wrong.
The Wizard - A young man, an inventor and an autodidact scientist, who looks at life as a puzzle to be solved. he strives to discover, understand and invent, with no thought as to the consequences.
The Daughter - A simple girl with simple ambitions - sailing through life enjoying every comfort, while ignoring or unaware of bigger and more profound issues.
The Mouser - A murderer and rapist, evil in the most banal aspect of the word.
The plot takes place during their last six days. All along, as the characters evolve, they listen to a daily radio program dealing with the extinction of the dinosaurs, finding correlating themes to their own situation. as the protagonists move and try to survive, and as their world views and correlations to the situation are gradually reveled, the following themes are explored: the essence of evil, the boundaries of moral responsibility, species (and humankind) extinction, love, grace, euthanasia and more.
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