tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616176071618676011.post947541880013810478..comments2023-07-04T04:56:02.927-07:00Comments on Eat, Prey, Limp: And Now I Want to Eat a Zombie's Face...Manny Abreuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621797044249288042noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616176071618676011.post-10853006415007112552014-09-24T17:59:44.274-07:002014-09-24T17:59:44.274-07:00Wow. That's so messed up...
But can I get bac...Wow. That's so messed up...<br /><br />But can I get bacon on that?Manny Abreuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08621797044249288042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616176071618676011.post-20322979194553816552014-09-24T15:11:10.892-07:002014-09-24T15:11:10.892-07:00Came across this today-
http://firsttoknow.com/hum...Came across this today-<br />http://firsttoknow.com/human-flesh-burger/?utm_source=facebookpageStageFrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257211402185454943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616176071618676011.post-78615167956090770132014-09-16T06:06:19.827-07:002014-09-16T06:06:19.827-07:00I really like the deconstruction here of why poten...I really like the deconstruction here of why potentially eating a zombie meatloaf face represents an uncanny moment--that is the reversal of the (un)natural order of zombie hunter and hunted. But this raises the question. Why does eating a zombie freak us out. As you mention, we eat other dead things, so why is eating a zombie super-gross? Is it that we can eat a once dead thing but not a twice dead thing? Is it the fear of bodily contagion, that is that zombies are an unclean kind of meat?<br /><br />It is also interesting that at least in the Romero films, part of what is so unsettling is the body rendered grotesque in various ways--grotesque in the sense of the body that is human/not-human, but also grotesque insofar as it is also the body rendered into meat. If we think of the scenes with the zombies feasting on entrails, etc. what is it about this that is so unsettling for us? Is it, in that cliched sense, a reminder that we may not actually be at the top of the food chain? We know that the body can be preyed upon by other living creatures in death--this is part of why cultures have funerary rituals--but what it is it about a zombie feasting on the body that unnerves us? lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257734489835183564noreply@blogger.com