Edgar Wright: 10 Moments That Prove His Utter Genius

5. Zombie Outbreak Goes Unnoticed

This one gets me good every time I watch Shaun of the Dead. It starts with Shaun trying to sell a television to a couple and all the footage he€™s flipping through is about the disaster that is beginning to unfold. Neither Shaun nor the couple pay any mind to what is actually on the screen. It really kicks into gear the following morning when Shaun wakes to find Ed in his usual spot on the couch and so he decides to go for a walk to the corner store to grab a drink. Alarms and sirens are going off, people are running for their lives, zombies are shuffling about and they all go unnoticed. Shaun even slips in a pool of blood and ignores the bloody handprints on the cooler because he€™s so wrapped up inside his own head. The sequence speaks volumes of the apathy which consumes most of our late twenty-somethings and early thirty-somethings -- they don€™t even bother to take in the world falling apart around them. Of course the sequence ends with Shaun and Ed finding a zombie in the back yard, mistaking her for a drunk, realizing their mistake and proceeding to empty the cupboards in their attempt to kill her. Pure gold.