Film Analysis: Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies was directed by Jonathan Levine. It tells the love story between a zombie, R, and a human, Julie. The zombies begin to change and turn into the living. As they do this, they must convince the humans. R and his friend, M, go into the protected stadium to prove they are changing. When the bonies (the zombies in the final stage of decay) catch onto their change, they go after the zombies. The zombies then join the humans to fight against them. Levine uses dark and dreary settings to capture the zombie and post-apocalyptic feel. The movie primarily takes place in an old abandoned airport and an old stadium. Levine himself said, “the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them” (IMDb). This is portrayed