As a prelude to a discussion of art, or at least a mention of art for the furtherance of a discourse about politics, it's worth a mention that it is the best episodes of Black Mirror, and the nascent genre of cyberpunk near future dystopia is relevant to GenZ in a very personally, vulnerable way, so the best zombie films are very personally relevant for millennials. It's a notable observation, that zombie films are actually from a philosophical perspective about capitalist alienation. It's a suggestion that knowledge of radical politics, or facts on the ground when they intervened in the every day, are such that people feel that particular form of capitalist alienation that Marx among others described. There's no need to go too far into explaining this right now, besides to say that the reason the zombie flick 28 Days Later is unique in this category is because it also implicates the military industrial complex.
No, as just a comparative mention, The Black Mirror show Fifteen Million Merits is the best of the genre from a GenZ perspective by far, along with perhaps, Hang the DJ from the same series. It's everything that threw us for a loop in the day, and it is still relevant. But the big question is, what does it say about us, really? Why does it all hurt to watch, but that one most of all?
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