I have always felt that the purpose of all the zombie movies is to desensitize us to the idea of killing others that we can justify because they are too different than us. It teaches us that it is nothing more than a video game with nice graphics, but no pain, no consequence, and not moral issues with which to grapple.
So many films of the genre are in the public now, that it is hard for someone not to know about it and to have seen at least some part of it,
It has entered into our language and our speech patterns.
I think the conditioning has gone well for a long time, and when the time comes to fight each other, no one will have an inner voice to tell them that violence is wrong.
People will kill each other until the fall from exhaustion.
That, I think, may be the desired goal.
Um... the ZiQ (zombies in question)
have already lost that inner voice telling them “don’t do this, it’s wrong”.
“I have always felt that the purpose of all the zombie movies is to desensitize us to the idea of killing others that we can justify because they are too different than us.”
I disagree. I think the popularity is rooted in the psychology the people already see these hordes as zombies and the vision of watching them”removed” as a threat is satisfying.
Violence is not “wrong”, per se. See my tag line.