{"id":8513,"date":"2020-08-28T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2020-08-28T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:54:14","slug":"review-we-are-little-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8513","title":{"rendered":"Review: WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inventive visual experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Japanese writer\/director Makoto Nagahisa\u2019s debut feature is brilliant. It\u2019s a bonkers fever dream with a profound narrative that matches its visual inventiveness.

However, \u201cWe Are Little Zombies\u201d isn\u2019t for everyone. For all it\u2019s striking, subversives 8-bit video game nostalgia combined with odd, alien posturing, the message might seem morbid and off-putting for some. Many viewers will struggle to stay with the film as it meanders, at times, in self-indulgent, but fantastic ways. There\u2019s a point to it, and when it ends, it all makes sense\u2026 I think.

The story follows four thirteenish kids who all lose their parents at around the same time. They are orphaned by a car accident, a fire, a murder, and so forth. A chance meeting at a crematorium brings them together in their emptiness. They describe themselves as \u201czombies,\u201d who now float about with no future, but they are plagued with dreams, some of which are nightmares.

As they wander from location to location, they begin to find a peculiar purpose, although their nihilistic thoughts plunge them into denial. While finding safety in an abandoned building, they get the idea to form what they describe as \u201ca kick-ass\u201d rock band. And that\u2019s what they do.

Don\u2019t expect their music to be a sunny, heavily polished K-Pop imitation. These little zombies collect their instruments from garbage heaps, meshing them with pieces of their own lives. For example, they assemble a makeshift drum set using a wok that Ishi (Satoshi Mizuno) retrieves from the charred ruins of his parents\u2019 restaurant.

Through the magic of social media, their first song, suitably titled \u201cWe Are Little Zombies,\u201d goes viral. The punkish tune becomes a cross-over pop sensation. But the foursome\u2019s newfound fame brings them little happiness. Closure is far away.

Read the rest of Jonathan’s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/07\/we-are-little-zombies-inventive-visual-experience<\/a><\/em>

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