I have to say first off that while I don't like zombie movies, almost as a rule, this was an exception. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie and was quite pleasantly surprised.
I found the significant moment in this film to be when Columbus decided to stay with Wichita and go to the park near Hollywood. He had the option to go to Columbus and see if it had truely been destroyed and whether his family was still alive but he decided to stay with this girl. Granted he and Tallahassee had been conned by Wichita and Little Rock twice already but there was something about her that appealed to him so much that he wanted to stay with her and go where she was going as opposed to going "home." This made me feel that Columbus had found what Tallahassee was looking for after his son had died. Something or someplace to call home. As he got to talk and get to know Wichita more he realized that she was the kind of girl that he could develop a relationship with and have that be his home, a "place" that gave him so much comfort and joy that he wanted to be there and no where else. Later in the film, Columbus voices over that these three people, who he had come together under such terrible circumstances, were the closest he had ever had to a real family. While not having a family to bring Christa home to, he seems to already be home with her.
Do you think that only under such adverse circumstances does a person adopt the idea of family and home in complete strangers? Is it something that grows out of desperation, loneliness or something else? Do you think that, while Columbus has always wanted to find the right girl, that he would have found it in such a sly and seemingly untrustworthy of a person as Wichita, if it hadn't been for the zombies?
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