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| | land of the dead |
 | | The key to George A. Romero's Dead films is that, movie by movie, the flesh-eating zombies become more and more sympathetic -- animalistic, but pure and sincere, compared with corrupt human survivors -- until, in the new fourth entry Land of the Dead, they emerge as something like heroes. |
 | | Romero has always used his zombie films as vehicles for social commentary, and here, several years after the dead began to rise and eat the living, the city is separated into two segments: those who are wealthy and white enough to afford a safe skyscraper existence far away from the moaning undead; and everyone else. |
 | | His Day of the Dead (1985) was by necessity truncated -- Romero simply didn't have the budget to realize his initial concept -- and it was a bitter and frustrated movie, yet still offered some pleasures. |
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