Lessons People Should Have Learned From The Zombie Apocalypse

1. Now I know that this is fiction, and that these are movies, and that things have to move in the movies. That means there’s going to be problems. Big problems sometimes. But a little preparation wouldn’t hurt in a movie now and then.

   A great example is Night of the Living Dead from 1968. Here a man finds another half-dozen people trapped in a small house. The house is vulnerable from all sides. During his examination of the house, he goes upstairs to look around. Then he comes back down the stairs, without a thought.

   The solution for them was to take everybody upstairs. They can throw all the furniture downstairs and block it. The they could spend the entire night bickering, talking and maybe making friends. But did they do that? No. So they all wind up dead. (Sorry about the spoiler.)

   It would seem that setting goals is not something that the writers thought about.

2. The next movie is Dawn of the Dead from 1978. Here’s a similar situation. A bunch of people trapped in a shopping mall filled with zombies. Again, the place is vulnerable from all sides. The people get the zombies out of the mall, but they don’t take the next step.

   It would’ve been very easy for them to either knockout or block all of the escalators and staircases leading upstairs. Then, all they would’ve had to do was monitor all the block passageways and stairs and they could’ve lived in peace. But did they do that? No. And guess what? Most of them died.

   By the late 1980s, this lack of preparation and forethought had become a trend. A disturbing trend. The Walking Dead, on AMC network, is guilty of this deficiency also. It’s not as bad a problem as most of the movies that came before, but they still react before they think the problem.

   Now I know that zombies have a single-minded focus. They just want to eat you and they don’t think about anything else. They have a single goal and all in any other distractions get in the way, even getting their heads cut off. They are focused to the utmost.
   The survivors, once they have a moment to breathe, need to make plans and set goals. They spent an entire year on a farm, and had very little in the way of emergency plans. They spent another year in a prison, and again had very little in the way of a plan B in case they had to run. In both cases, when things hit the fan, all they did was run with whatever they had in their hands. No goals. No focus.

   If there was ever a good example of the need to Set Goals in the movies, it’s the movies of the Zombie Apocalypse.

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