28 Weeks Later--Let's Talk About the Ending, You Guys

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Here's the thing--I loved, loved, loved 28 Weeks Later. But I have beef with the ending, and want to discuss.

I'm declaring a SPOILER ZONE after the jump--

SPOILERS!!

So I laughed at the end at the sight of the zombies running towards the Eiffel Tower, but the preceding imagery left me very confused. I can't make sense of it, within the context of the story. Here are some competing explanations:

1) Andy (the little boy) was more than just a carrier. In the helicopter, he developed the rage virus and killed his sister and Harold Perrineau. The problem with this explanation is that none of the other zombies experienced a delay in onset of symptoms. You get bit, and five seconds later you freak out. His mother, also a carrier, got bit and spent 7 months without displaying any symptoms. It doesn't make sense, within the rules created in the story.

2) Andy got to Paris safely, but then somebody got his blood in their mouth or saliva in an open wound and another outbreak occurred, just like with his mother. The problem here is that it doesn't explain why Fresnadillo opens the sequence with imagery of Harold Perrineau's helicopter in ruins. That's visual language that implies that the helicopter was involved in the initial French outbreak, but that further implies the illogical #1.

3) So that must mean that the outbreak occurred via #2, and Perrineau was brought down in his capacity as US Army, now protecting France. His death had nothing to do with Andy at all; he was just a random casualty. The problem with this is that we saw Perrineau defy the Code Red orders by rescuing the children and leaving England. Why would the US Army let him remain on active duty? The US hasn't been hit by the rage virus, so there's no shortage of soldiers to send over (yet).

4) I'm left with this story solution: Some rage virus zombies crossed the Chunnel into France and got there just when Harold Perrineau was touching down. It's the only thing that makes sense, but I'm still not satisfied.

What do you think?

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28 Weeks Later Ending

After Perrineau and the kids bug out of there and the screen goes blank and there is another 28 Days Later text on the screen before showing the downed chopper. So....Andy was carrying the virus, they got to France and something happened that allowed him to spread it and all hell has broke loose. I didn't see anything to imply that Perrineau is dead or that he crashed because of the virus. It's 28 days after they have left London and the chopper has been deserted. I really am looking forward to a 28 Months Later because I am a huge fan of these movies and anything zombie. Thats my two cents.

how i realised that andy was turning in to one of the infected

after waching 28 weeks later after waching it the last hundred times i notice you when don the dad gets infected have you noteced a bit of blood gose on the window in the lab well if you wach carefully the same happens to the kid in the hellicoppter but becouse he was amune to the virus it took longer to incubate

sorry about the spelling

sorry if te spelling aint right ps.i realy realy realy love 28 weeks later

My thoughts on this

I didn't notice it saying "28 days later" before it cut to the abandoned/crashed helicopter, if so, the explanation that they made it ok, but the helicopter was somehow trashed or abandoned might fly.

My thought, however: the sister was never shown to have immunity to the virus, was she? The brother was covered in infected blood, so it is very plausible that she was exposed and went "zombie" killing the pilot and causing the crash. The only "hope" is the brother who carries the antibodies, and so you hope that he survived the crash...but then if he does, he is also a carrier and no one would know. There is also no indication that the "zombification" can be reversed. This really smacks of "I am Legend"...anyway...

The "zombies" coming out of the tunnel were probably ones that came from England via the Chunnel, as you stated.

I can't believe I am even thinking about this...I randomly ran across this film while on a business trip and was sucked in by it, but it really is pretty gory and depressing.

My thoughts:

Ok so here goes my thoughts on the ending:

1. So we know he carries the virus, like his mum, has to be due to the mixed eye colour somehow...
2. We see the chopper on the floor and getthe idea its abandonned. However if this is how the other guy stated "28 days after the flight to paris" then im not sure how the pilots radio still works, those must be some pretty damn good batteries. Giving me the idea that the "something" whatever it may be, happened a few days/weeks after they got to paris.
3. The fact is they may have just shown the chopper for effects and to use the radio as a way to communicate to the viewer as it is more easily acceptable then a commentator.
4. Could just be a way to make people keep guessing and thinking up new stuff like this! xD

My theory:
The boy did not suddenly go ape-shit on the heli and turn zombie as he has his mothers immunity and will not become one, just carry it. Therefore i can only imagine that he made direct contact with another person. (by accident)Perhaps his sister??? Because if you remember, he had been bitten and therefore leaking (not much but still)blood. Therefore i would guess he needed medical attention. Possible that the doctor had an open wound, or something happened to expose the blood/saliva. *or he got a girlfriend in Paris (city of love) ;P* But seriously i feel the chopper was used as a communication to the audience and we are meant to keep guessing the outcome. {perhaps another film is on the way, who knows} but i put my money on it being called 28 months later if here is one lol.

mhhh

Although the mother was carrying the virus, she wasen't totally symptom free.
When Andy found her, she hugged her quite violently. Violently engouh to scare him away.
When she was being washed, she was screaming like a wild beast. One might think it's because of the 6+months that she spent, trying to survive but we can clearly see a bit later that she's perfectly sane.
When her husband kisses her, she ended up bitting him.
So my point is that the mother and child's immunity is not perfect. There are some moments when they partially lose control and jump on the nearest unsuspicious victim.

An other possible theory is that the carriers just behave differently when only a handfull of infected are alive. We can compare this to animal that can change their gender for the survival of its kind. The virus could be left dormant for a while, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and be spread again.
After all, the virus doen't make people stupid like our regular zombie. The infected can still climb ladders, ambush people and stuff which mean they can probably still act normally to trick people.

kind of like the movie Outbreak

The mother and the boy had some type of immunity to the virus, however, that does not mean that they can't spread the virus to non-immune people, as evidence by the husband getting RAGE when he kisses his wife.

It's kind of like the monkey in Outbreak, it is able to survive despite being the "host" and carrying the disease. It can still transmit and give deadly infections to those it comes in contact with.

So the likely scenario is that somehow the boy transmitted the virus on the helicopter ride and whoever got it flipped out on everyone, even killing the boy.

The other possibility seems like some of the zombies came through the Chunnel, but you think this would have been destroyed long ago as a quarantine type measure.

is it possible both parents

is it possible both parents had some immunity? the father was more controlled than the other zombies he even followed them out. but i think the ending is the ending to show that its unstoppable. or there will be a 28 years later when andy is old enough to have become a sceince wiz and makes a cure the end?

I agree with the poster

I agree with the poster above who said that the helicopter is simply a way of communicating to the audience. I think that the chopper ran out of fuel and had to land somewhere over france. I wish i spoke French so I could know what the transmission said:(. I also thought that the chunnel would have been destroyed by now. But then again it's the French.

My theory

My first thought was that Andy may have infected the pilot and his sister and therefore was the host that spread the virus to France.....but I prefer to think that while flying over France the pilot realised that the infection had reached France and so decided to ditch the helicopter in the French countryside.

Andy is a great character to take into a sequel because he's both a possible threat to mankind as well as the possible salvation to mankind. He's the carrier of the infection but also has antibodies that are resistant to the rage.

Wow, I wish I had come up with the original storyline to the 28 Days/Weeks/Months franchise.

I think that something

I think that something completely different happened. Maybe, for some reason totally unrelated to the rage virus, the helicopter crashed. It could have crashed somewhere over France, or anywhere else. It was never really said where they were flying to. Anyway, it could have crashed, and then some passerby or random person could have gotten the virus from Andy somehow. Then, the virus would be able to spread to, for instance, Paris, or all over the world for that matter.

Well, if Andy has the

Well, if Andy has the immunity then he is carrying it. The plane looked more abandoned then wrecked because of the dust in it and it oldish look. I wouldn't think they were attacked while on it because of the way the headset is placed on the chair (placed down neatly in a way). I believe that the zombies you see coming out of the tunnel were indeed the ones that were in the outbreak because if Andy did infect her sister or the pilot then why would zombies be coming from the tunnel?? I believe they made it to a safety zone and didn't land via chopper due to a conversation where the pilot says "even if I wanted to bring them we'd get shot down" or somewhere along those lines. So they probably walked their. Really complex ending and I wish the directors would explain it.

OR... what if it what the

OR... what if it what the false Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas and they really infected America!? dun dun dun!!!

Darned Teenagers!

Look at all thats happened since the Rage virus first was released! That stupid monkey is to blame for all this! And this is also why I dont like radical animal rights activists! I guess they got what they deserved for releasing that monkey, but all of Great Britian now must feel the wrath.

What Probably Happened

Okay, so their in the helicopter, everythings going fine and dandy, when Andy has to sneeze. He sneezes, thinks nothing of it, and goes back to laying his head on his sisters shoulder. About 10 seconds later, the pilot goes berserk and attacks Andy, the plane crashes and kills his sister. Because when Andy sneezed, some of it got into a cut in the pilot's skin, or maybe into his eyes if Andy was rude enough to sneeze in his face.

OR, they landed in the French countryside, because the Pilot knows that he could get shot down for carrying possible infected. they walk and walk, and finally get to Paris to find it overrun with the Infected. The Infected from London had crossed over and had run into France. Which leads the way for 28 Months Later, the movie where Andy, his sister, and the pilot must navigate across France to the headquarters of the United States Army.

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