The film tells a story about a leakage of an artificial virus turns into a Zombie Apocalypse. Umbrella Corporation built an underground secret facility “The Hive”, this is the place where viral weapons are researched and developed. The film starts with someone breaks into The Hive to steal the “T-virus”, the virus is able to bring back the dead and turn them into zombies. Before leaving, he destroyed one of the virus and it quickly spread in the air conditioning system and contaminated the whole building. The company’s artificial intelligent “Red Queen” decided to kill everyone to stop the virus from escaping the building.
Alice wakes up in a mansion with memory loss, soon a few soldier broke into the house, told her she is the security to protect The Hive. They are on a mission to shut down Red Queen and they bring along Alice, Matt Anderson who they arrested in the mansion, and Spence who is also the guard of The Hive, they found him passed out on the train heading toward The Hive. After shutting down Red Queen, the main power of the building has been cut off and release the Zombies locked by the computer. The group of people needs to head back to the ground before the gate sealed forever. They will need to survive from the threat zombies and “Licker” the monster created by Umbrella Corp.
Resident Evil can be considered as a hybrid film that mixes with the genre of horror, science fiction, and action. It can be categorized as the sub-genre of unnatural horror as it consists threat to normalcy and bodily mutilations. In this case, Zombies are dead people contaminated by T-virus, the virus altered their body state and turns them into creatures with no intelligence and driven by the need to feed.
The horror genre is commonly combines with science fiction. Threats are coming from the development of science and technology may serve to be destructive. Resident Evil contains semantics that can be identified it as the elements of science fiction. The movie sets its story background in the near future, a new technology product from Umbrella Corp. became caused the threats of the movie. The monsters in the film are also the product of science, such as Zombies, Lickers, and Red Queen.
As for the syntax, the theme of Utopia vs Dystopia can be found in the movie. Science and technologies were portrayed as the evil threaten to humanity, cruel decisions are made during technology development. Umbrella Corp. had clearly gone above the law in their science research, making the deadly virus and creating monsters in the science experiment, their creations are so dangerous and it leads to the destruction when it loses control. Except for that, Red Queen as an artificial intelligent that consists no compassion in her program is one of the threats in the movie. She makes the decision to kill everybody simply because it is the safest way to keep T-virus in the building. She ordered Alice to kill Rain in exchange for escape route even they can get the cure on the train because she does not take chances. It shows that the smartest computer can turn into the most dangerous killer for the greatest good.
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