Chapter 66 zombies appeared in 1968

There is a zombie movie that made me laugh out loud.This is George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", in which the zombies are clumsy and stupid, and their movements are extraordinary, comparable to the robot dance of a certain domestic star.After laughing, I found that it was quite different from the previous zombie films.In the past, zombies were formed because of witches, poisons, ghosts, or even thunder and electric shocks. This time, zombies are caused by some kind of rays. Probably because, it appeared in 1968.This year, 100 scientists from 46 countries formed the "Club of Rome" to conduct research on population, food, industrialization, pollution and waste of non-renewable resources, with the intention of exploring the impact of human activities on the world.Four years later, in 1972, "The Limits to Growth" (also known as the "Roman Club" Report) was published, which was like a slap in the face, allowing human beings to see themselves clearly.Artists are more sensitive than scientists. In 1968, two important films were made.One is a film of the same name based on the best-selling author Arthur Haley's novel "Airport", and the other is "Night of the Living Dead", each discussing disasters created by humans in different fields.

In the previous disaster films, whether it was the "Atlantic" filmed by Danish director August Blom in 1913 or the later "Ice Sea Shipwreck", the disasters in the films were often caused by volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, storms, Fires (the Great Chicago Fire of 1871) and fanciful beasts (for example) arose no different from the ancient catastrophes recorded in the New Testament, all pushed to heaven and earth. After 1968, humanity began to take responsibility for itself.Of course, it is also because human beings are finally capable enough to influence the world and take responsibility.

People are always like this. Once you have a new discovery, you must explore it to the end. Once you have a new toy, you will get tired of playing with it. As soon as the movie became sound, it was followed by the era of musicals and musicals. Once the awakening of 1968 came, the 1970s that followed was almost the era of disaster movies.That’s right, the disaster films since then have stopped pushing everything to nature, and mostly discuss the relationship between human activities and nature with a guilty attitude. Even the giant beasts and zombies in horror movies are also related to the over-developed technology of human beings.Either they swallowed nuclear waste to become extremely large, or they have been exposed to nuclear radiation.In short, it is human beings who ask for the fight.This attitude may not be completely right, it is better than evasion and prevarication.

In 1968, there was really a dividing line, not only the dividing line of disaster movies, but also the dividing line of our understanding of ourselves. After 1968, if all the disasters were still blamed on nature, it would be somewhat like fishing in troubled waters. And we, it seems, will always grow up explosively in a certain year, realize explosively, and know a certain truth explosively, so that the originally meaningless time scale becomes a dividing line.