 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Fido • Year: 2006 • Country: Canada • Director: Andrew Currie • Main cast: Kesun Loder, Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss • Runtime: 93 minutes • Production company: Lions Gate Films, Anagram Pictures TRAILER |
50’s. And zombies. Colorful houses, matching dresses, children playing and parents gardening; it depicts perfectly the calm of an american residential neighborhood where everybody lives their own routine, as part of a community, and greets the neighbor by his name. There was in the past a zombie outbreak and many years of war. But they don’t seem to be worried anymore about the zombies. The situation got stabilised thanks to the ZomCon corporation. Back to our quiet neighborhood, and among all the families and colors, grey clumsy figures help people in their daily lives, as part of the new domestic servants and community workers integrated social layer.
Ok. Zombies are always monsters, and after so many zombie movies, watching people kill them looks rather normal, eventhough their human appearance, eventhough some of them only hours ago where people like us. It’s a fact. Zombies are human no more. And they are a thread. But what happens when they stop being a thread? When they are no more those killing machines endangering the future of humanity? When an enterprise like Zomcon manages to keep them away from the feeding need of human flesh? Well, here comes the original, comic and critic point of the movie: society starts using them as houskeeping or maintenance help. But since they’re dead, they lost their rights as human. Do they then become pets, or even worse, slaves!? And the always troubling question, do they keep deep inside a bit of the human they used to be?
This horror comedy movie thinks over all this aspects within a family (Carrie-Anne Moss playing a wonderful mother) with an only child, who’s more sensitive than average and consequently doesn’t seem to have a place in the new society, and who’s father is so obsessed with death that prefers going to funerals than spending some time alone with his wife and him. In this apparently secure and organised environment is where Fido (Billy Connolly) makes his appearance as a Zombie, and starts making some changes to the fragile balance of the neighborhood. Becoming the only friend for Timmy the boy, shows us that feelings are what makes us human, and once more, we can’t judje a zombie for his appearance. The important thing is being alive on the inside.
RATE: 6,5/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572
