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Year 1968. Interview with two scientists on television.
The subject of debate, a hypothetical
massive fungal infection
that takes control of the human brain.
It could happen?
Without a cure, without preventive treatment, millions of people would be infected.
Joke from the presenter and laughter from the audience.
After all, that deadly fungus would need much higher temperatures to survive.
But... Yes, here we add that in 2023 we have just suffered a
pandemic
that we never imagined and
climate change
is a serious threat.
The laughs are over.
This is the starting point of the series that
HBO
premieres this Sunday and that is called to be one of the great releases of the year:
The Last of Us
, the television fiction adaptation of the famous video game that
Naughty Dog
developed a decade ago .
In reality, nothing in the approach of
The Last of Us
is new.
Apocalyptic scenario after an epidemic in which the few human beings that are left uninfected fight to survive and stay safe from the infected, who in this case take on the role of classic zombies.
Why not?
Now we know what
could
happen.
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Regardless of whether or not the video game is known, it is inevitable to reread the new HBO series with post-pandemic eyes.
If the
Covid
was a dystopia that we lived in first person (what was it if not the confinement of humanity in their homes, the queues in the supermarkets of the first world or the curve of deaths and infections), the disturbing thing about
The Last of Us
is not they are his monsters.
It is how Craig Mazin
(
Chernobyl
) and
Neil Druckmann
, one of the creators of the video game,
confront the viewer with the dilemma of a credible collapse .
To understand each other, here there are no
zombies
that rise from the dead -needless to say that they have done so only in fiction-, but infected ones that could well be those of the coronavirus.
That they attack us in the form of mutant beings is already a license from the horror genre.
Even so, the
story that Joel and Ellie almost exclusively monopolize
is far from this record.
The same, by the way, as
The Walking Dead
, where the
zombies
are part of the
props
.
The real enemy is us.
In this sense, there is a parallel between
The Last of Us
and
The Walking Dead
, as there is between the HBO series and the movie
Contagion
.
In 2011, Steven Soderbergh was based on the influenza A pandemic, but the film put us back in 2020 before a mirror that was at least terrifying due to its resemblance to reality.
And if in
The Last of Us
the
Game of Thrones
actors
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey
embark on a flight through a devastated United States (the performance of the twenty-something deserves a special mention, which will undoubtedly cause people to talk), we had already read something about that in Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel
The Road
.
Also made into a movie, it recounts the journey of a father and a son through a world whose civilization has been practically annihilated.
This time, Joel is the traumatized father in charge of taking Ellie out of the quarantine zone, on a journey -also of introspection- that will put them to the test: against themselves and against the infected, whom they find in
places and totally video game aesthetic scenes
.
The path reveals in the subsoil a reflection on the different forms of human organization.
In other words,
what political system would be more valid in a dystopian and bunkerized society
, built on the pillars of pain and fear, where you have to empathize even with violence.
From the fascist dictatorship to communism -from the North American point of view-, going through a sect.
Of course, there is no lack of reference to the long-awaited capitalism that represents a shopping center in ruins.
After all, when everything around you falls apart, the greatest moment of happiness can be riding the horse of a rickety merry-go-round.
That is freedom.
But if there's no hope anymore, why go on, Ellie asks Joel.
"Because you have not seen the world."
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