Directed by Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead is a mixture of romance, horror and comedy. Our main character is Shaun, a typical boring employee who follows the same routine every day. Even though, he notices something wrong is happening in the world around him but ignores all of them. Hilariously but metonymically, the zombies in this movie still follow their mindlessly processing routine as if their brains are still functional.

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However, the issue raised here is that whether they are zombies before becoming  zombies or not?

“…The zombie can be understood as tracking a range of cutural, political and economic anxieties in North American society.”

(Birch-Bayley, p.1148)

Nowadays, it’s not difficult to find an example of how zombie represents us. There are so many people are walking with their headphones, sticking their eyes to the phone screen without any awareness of actual things happening around them. Moreover, the film turns zombies into economical account and use their condition to fill low working class roles at the end which somehow implies that human is ready to exploit anything to make profit while ignore all the risks.

Reference:
Birch-Bayley, N 2012, ‘Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie’, Journal of Popular Culture, vol.45, no.6, pp.1137-1151.