Land of the Dead

The still-living in the vicinity have fled to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a feudal-like government has taken over. Bordered on two sides by two rivers and on the other by an electric barricade, the city has become a sanctuary against the undead threat. Fiddler's Green, the center of this fortress city, is where the rich and powerful live in luxury while the rest of humanity live in poverty around them. Paul Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), a tyrannical businessman, rules with an iron fist and overwhelming firepower.
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Even so i can’t stand bloody scenes like that, i watched the movie until the end (admittedly not without zapping through different channels sometimes – i don’t like watching chimps eating one another and i don’t like humans doing it, even when they are disguised as zombies).

But despite of that – it was such a realistic movie!

Even in times, when death knocks at the door of humankind – they can’t do anything else than grab, grab, grab.

The zombies of the movie were everywhere – only this one little “sanctuary” seemed to be left on the whole wide world to protect life.

But the inhabitants didn’t care – they played their games of money and power and prostitution and consume, as if nothing had happened, while the zombies came nearer and nearer, eating each person alive whom they could catch.

I watched the “tyrannical businessman” truly believing that he could escape doomsday with colored green paper, watched the soldiers killing other humans for that colored green paper...

and couldn’t stop thinking, if they can’t understand, that colored green paper is just as much worth as the society of humans printing that paper. I watched them bargaining about green paper and couldn’t stop thinking, if they can’t see that only humans decide the value of that paper...

Without humans – no value.

And in that movie, nearly no humans were left – and the rich man wanted to flee with his money from the seemingly last place near and far where humans could live. To be clear: From the last place means, that there were no other places where humans lived.

So who should take his money to serve him?

But because the "tyrannical businessman” was played by Dennis Hopper, i couldn’t help myself to think that this movie is a true parable, because in the end, the businessman died in fire while the colored green paper rains from heaven (or at least from the ceiling).

Zombies...

Living Dead...

People looking as if they live but not caring about family, about future, about friends and foe – just about themselves at that very moment they exist...

People barricading themselves behind walls of stone and soldiers and money – Brazil, Littleton, neighborhood of New Orleans...

Just like the Bushs, Olins, Scaifes, Coors’, Bradleys and Kochs trampling on Mother Earth and their fellow humans for colored green paper...

not able to see the end – the end, Friedrich Nietzsche saw so clearly: The LAST MAN.

Dennis Hoppers’ “Paul Kaufmann” (the german word for “dealer”) – the man too stupid to understand that colored green papier is worth nothing without humans taking it.

A truly realistic movie.