NIGHT NINETEEN: The Dead Don't Die (2019)

THE DEAD DON'T DIE

(2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch, 104 min.)

Another rewatch, my first since seeing this in the theater back in 2019. At the time, I reflected that the movie's comedically listless fatalism was a pretty clear metaphor for living in the late 2010s. Looking back on it six years later, it kind of reads as a metaphor for the slow-motion disaster of the post-pandemic/Jan 6 era as well, where we had literal YEARS to do something about the obvious problems in front of us but nobody in a position of power had the gumption to do something real.

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Review of ‘The Dead Don't Die’ (2019) ★★★½

HOOPTOBER XII NIGHT NINETEEN: Another rewatch, my first since seeing this in the theater back in 2019. At the time, I reflected that the movie's comedically listless fatalism was a pretty clear…