The first thing we first notice about this shot is the
angle, which is a high. This connotes how little power the zombies have
considering how slow and gormless they are. The clock tower represents how time has stood
still and everything looks so calm but at the same time the clock is red which
connotes fear and danger. There is contrapuntal music playing at this moment in
time. The reason there is contrapuntal music is to unsettle us. You can also see
that George Romero is mocking consumerism and making it out to be rubbish as
people are just wondering around aimlessly in the mall. Romero likes to mock
the content in his films, so with Day of the Dead (1985) he mocked the
fact that he considered there to be a
government that was far too obsessed with spending money on weaponry and the
military. In Day of the Dead all of the army members were very untrustworthy
and nasty.
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