Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Name the movie


How I couldn't write about this? After such a long interval with no posts at all, and this blog almost forgotten, it was time to write again. I mean, express ideas, thoughts, well, anything that holds my interest. No better time than this.


If you were ever fascinated by terror or horror movies, what we are living it's just like a zombie movie, without the zombies themselves (I know some countries are starting to flat the curve, and I got late in here.) Nevertheless if you peek outside the window and look at the streets, you see almost no one. If you wander the streets, there are less vehicles than usual, people wearing masks. No buzz from the frenzy of the usual rat race.

Neighborhoods are silent, and the days go past slowly. Some people are distressed, anxious and others live a day at once. It's really like nothing else I ever experienced in life (maybe a bit the Housing Market 2008 crisis.) Sudden outbreaks of Corona virus, here and there. And people and cities would get enclosed in their surroundings; animals would take the streets for granted on the suburban areas.

Yeah, we have the huge number of lives being taken daily, and that is what the horror movies resemble, along with the whole scenario I described earlier. The pandemic condition this virus has brought to the planet, it's like the film itself. I don't know if we ever going to experience that again soon. However, i
t's so weird to imagine what it has developed, lots of people unemployed, businesses closing down, people scared to death (pun not intended.) I can see Rick Grimes walking by himself in the distance.

I don't know when it's gonna end; of course this is not going to last forever. I believe this is the farthest we would ever get of a zombie movie, or a zombie apocalypse. At least this surrealistic reality made me feel what it's like to be in a world where people could be decimated by the living dead, and the ones alive trying to survive. I know now life imitates art and the other way around too.