Analyzing Zombie Culture in The Postmodern Society: Train To Busan
F rom comedic zombie movie such as “Shaun of The Dead” until the social critique movie such as Romero’s series of “Dawn of The Dead”, zombie has been a very important entity in representing the postmodern society. According to the writers of “Zombies and Western Culture”, zombies enact the crisis of meaning emerged in the postmodern society. The disconnection from personal, social, and cultural life, as well as the appearance of raging consumerist society which is identical to the postmodern society shapes this meaningless life for people living in postmodernist society. They come in packs but at the same time they are astray, unable to connect and communicate with each other, exactly like how zombies are depicted. It can’t be denied that even though postmodernism is a backlash to modernism, the effect of modernism remains strong in the society, becoming an urgent issue that the postmodernists want to address through architecture, literature, and this time, movies to gain attentio...