Zombieland (2009)

Introduction

Zombieland is a movie which released on year 2009. It actually is an American zombie horror film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. This Zombieland film was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $60.8 million in 17 days and surpassing the 2004 film “Dawn of the Dead” as the top grossing zombie film in the United States until World War Z in 2013.

Synopsis

The world’s surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the hungry undead after a virus turns more people into zombies. The four survivors who are Tallahassee and his companions Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock comply with a list of survival rules and zombie-killing strategies as they make their own way toward a rumored safe haven in Los Angeles. It focuses on how the survivors found the way to survive a world overrun by zombies. And the fear of survivors who afraid to be eaten by the zombies also a way that keep them alive.

Genre

Everything movie or film has their own genre. Genre is a form of categorizing films or grouping of films and films type. There are few major genres such as action, comedy, horror, romance, sci-fi and so on. 

In this Zombieland film, it's actually make up of different genre which called mixed genre and one of the genre is romance. In simply way, romance is a genre when the plots revolves around the love between two main characters as they endure the highs and lows of the love. It used for fictional works focusing on the development of love between the two main characters. 

As in this film, the two main characters who involved in the romance genre are Columbus and Wichita. Their love story was not started like falling in love at first sight but their love romance was started when they continue they journey together in the same car. 

For example, Columbus and Wichita still cannot tolerate or get well along with each other from the beginning when they continue their journey together in the same car. But all the things were getting different after Columbus and Wichita started to tell each other their own feelings and experienced. Furthermore, Wichita also consoling Columbus as she knew that he has lost his parents. After that, Columbus decided to stay when Wichita found a car for Columbus and ask he to start his journey and this actually shows that Columbus was started falling in love with Wichita. 

In addition, the relationship between Columbus and Wichita became more closer when they were in Bill Murray's house. They drank, chat and danced in the night and they almost kissed but end up it ruined by Tallahassee. But on the other day, Wichita and Little Rock drove and leave Columbus and Tallahassee behind again.

Even though Columbus has been hurt, but he still help out Wichita when she's in danger at Pacific Playland which is full of zombies. He decided to break his rules in order to rescue her from danger. This  scene obviously shows that Columbus wiling to disregard his own life to save Wichita. Columbus's action did made Wichita fallen in love with him and both of them trusted each other which they never had when the journey just started. 

As a conclusion, both of them had gone through all the difficult and end up they built "trust". The mixed genre in this movie was successfully attracted people's attention.