LIFE AFTER BETH MOVIE VODLOCKER MOVIE
Life After Beth is smart and surprisingly novel movie interpretation given the influx supply in the zombie movie section of video rentals. (note: I realize this is way deeper than needs to be) In this case Beth becomes voraciously needy, emotionally turbulent and in desperate denial. As the layers of flesh are biologically broken down, so do the humanity-driven walls we build up to reveal a rawer version of the person. It somehow blurs the line between horror and romance – with the dialogue delightfully ambiguous enough to make audiences forget the subject matter: Zach: You don't wanna eat me right now? Beth: Zach Stop, my parents! Baena's theme through out the film is that being a zombie does not change a person substantially. It is bizarre and aspects of it are well thought out. Life After Beth is the definition of quirky and unconventional. Jeff Baena writes and directs this weird RomCom zombie movie. DeHaan contributes with concerned subtle glances and side-eyes that at any moment his ex-girlfriend hunger for brains will kick in. Plaza slowly transforms on par with her character Beth's physical transformation into putrid detritus. Plaza and DeHaan are nuanced in their performances. The longer cadaverous Beth walks amongst the living the more Zach realizes things are not quite right. Aubrey Plaza plays the Beth of Life After Beth – a recently deceased sorta ex- girlfriend of Zach, Dane DeHaan, who mysteriously rises from the grave. That also reminds me of a thing I heard working at a call centre, that the middle-class Glasgow accent is the most soothing accent to be told bad news in.Life After Beth is a kooky take on the beyond exhausted zombie movie. The soundtrack does get more…grindy as it goes on. I think we took it one step further and actually made it sexual. Smooth jazz would be the only kind of music that zombies would respond to. So, his thinking was that zombies are just base level humans, just urges, so they would like the base level music. Even if you don’t like the music you have a physical response, or it makes you have a physical response. The thing about the movie is…there are so many weird little details that you might think were an accident, or that they came from nowhere, but he’s such a smart person that he has a reason for every single thing in the movie, and the smooth jazz part is because: he read a thing about smooth jazz a long time ago, in some kind of science magazine or something, and it said that smooth jazz actually calms humans down, which is why they play it lobbies of hospitals and waiting rooms, because there’s something about the tone of it that, um, it triggers some chemical in your body that makes you relax. His answer is better, but I’ll tell you what he says. Why does smooth jazz have that effect on Beth? Was that ever explained? What’s the real thing anyway? It’s not a real thing, so why not make it my own? Just do whatever I want to do. I…did not do research…because I didn’t want to copy anyone…as a zombie, and I’d never really- there’s never really been a movie where a zombie has so many human emotions and qualities…but I did think – in my head – that maybe I should watch… zombie movies just to get the physical kind of thing…but then I thought, ‘Any movie about a zombie is just making that shit up anyway’. Did you do research the role? Watch other zombie films, or something with a monster/non-monster element, or did you just go with the script? Yeah, there was a writer from London came up and said ‘How are you all not constantly writing fantasy novels? Just look out the window’. It’s ridiculously beautiful, I mean, it’s like it’s out of a storybook or something. You kinda get used to it, but you constantly end up in new bits of it – to you – and remember ‘Oh yeah, we’ve got all this’.
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