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out, and descend further, toward the train level, in the hope of using the tunnels to reach the stadium. Daddy appears, kills Scarlet, and bites/infects his own son, Andy. Sally kills him with multiple shots to the chest. The two children flee into the tunnel.

They emerge at the stadium to the waiting helicopter, are flown out, cross the channel, and 28 weeks later, voila!, Paris has been infected, and the contagion has gone global. Tribalism returns, big-time.

The ideology in this movie is thick enough to choke a full-grown elephant. Ask yourself: who is portrayed as weak/evil/inhuman? What a switch, it's the US military, the father, the family, and doctors. Why does the story have the US military preside over the quarantine? Perhaps they're inferring Europe become so incompetent they can't deal with their own problems. An EU military, given the fascistic portrait of the military given here, would in fact jibe more closely with historical precedent. Examples of Eurofascism abound.

The purpose of the filmmakers seems to have been to find any story-hook on which to portray the US military as fascistic, genocidal killers. Again, how original! This has become a standard feature in the European 'intellectual' landscape. The film also further develops its earlier trope of British national self-loathing: the first movie trashed the British military; this installment trashes the American. I suppose in the next one they'll have UN peacekeepers come bouncing in and save the day, instead of doing their usual routine: cowering out of sight, extortion, sexual abuse, bribery, kickbacks, lying, staging 'media' footage. Etc. ad nauseum.

This film is admittedly technically well-made, but the European left-totalitarian ideology behind it is the only true 'contagion' in sight.

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