The men who stare at goats part 5

The men who stare at goats part 5

Don Robert Carlyle, his wife Alice Catherine McCormack and a handful of other uninfected survivors are huddled together in a large cottage way out in the country; the windows are covered-even the cracks between the covers are filled in. It comes as a shock, a few minutes in, to learn that it s bright daylight outside, not night. Don assures Alice that their own two children are probably all right, and allows her to let in a fugitive boy. This leads to a mass invasion of the cottage by the raging maniacs outside; as Don, Alice and the boy scramble upstairs, he gets out the window first-and leaves the other two behind as he runs hell for leather across a field, barely making his getaway in a motorboat. Twenty-eight weeks later, the has sent troops to London; headquarters are on the Isle of Dogs, a peninsula in the Thames in eastern London. It s covered with a Singapore-like cluster of tall new buildings, and a neat little trolley ferries in newcomers. These include Tammy Imogen Poots and Andy Mackintosh Muggleton, an even better name than Imogen Poots, the children of Don and Alice; she s in her late teens, he s about twelve. Don greets them-there are few children in the group of survivors and military newcomers-and shows them their new apartment. They also meet Scarlet Rose Byrne, a dedicated medical scientist attached to the unit. And we also meet soldiers Doyle Jeremy Renner and Flynn Harold Perrineau, from Lost, the latter a helicopter pilot. The two children are disturbed by their father s tale of their mother s terrible fate. Though everyone is supposed to stay put on the Isle of Dogs, the two kids sneak away and seek out their former home, pursued by authorities. To the shock of Tammy and Andy, they find their mother, terrified and quaking, alive in the house. Scarlet learns that Alice s blood carries antibodies to the virus, which keep it from affecting her. Perhaps a cure the men who stare at goats part 5 be found-but Alice has to be kept away from everyone else; while she may not be affected by the disease, she s a carrier. A contrite Don, torn by guilt, sneaks in to see her where she s strapped to a gurney, and he kisses her. To his horror, he realizes he s contracted the plague-but in a few seconds, he s a snarling, frothing berserk lunatic. Naturally, things get much worse from here out. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, principally responsible for 28 Days Later, hired Spanish director Fresnadillo to create a script with Rowan Joffe, Jes s Olmo and Enrique L pez Lavigne. They wanted to avoid the structure of the first movie, but still pit fleeing survivors against raging, murderous lunatics who tend to drool blood. 28 Weeks Later is very well structured, starting with a terrifying action sequence, calming down, then unleashing the terror again-and the men who stare at goats part 5 all odds, keeping the tension high and the scares frequent. There are several segments: first, there s the outbreak on the Isle of Dogs as the plague swiftly passes from person to person, and everyone tries to get off the peninsula. Horrified but dedicated snipers, including Doyle, try to spot the infected among the fleeing people, but can t do it, and so finally open fire on everyone. In the melee, Scarlet and Tammy flee after getting separated from Andy, but they re reunited later on. Having left his post in fear and despair, Doyle guides them and a few others across deserted London, unaware that the infected Don is following them. Doyle radios Flynn, still in his chopper, trying to set up a rendezvous. But the infected drive them onward, through streets, into a grassy area with a carousel, finally down into the Underground tunnels under the streets. Fresnadillo keeps the scenery varied and the tension blistering, with occasional pauses to allow his cast and audience to catch their breaths. I found the ending regretful but probably inevitable.