Ever since the audience witnessed the ending of The Dead Don’t Die, they have been searching for it to be explained. If you are one of those fans wondering, you are at the right place. We serve you with all answers! First off, the genius movie stars our favorite Adam Driver. The movie also has Selena Gomez in its cast, so buckle up for an entertainment jampack. The movie is about a zombie apocalypse. However, we see there is a twist in the end. The movie is directed by Jim Jarmusch, and it was released on July 12, 2019, and is now available to stream on Netflix.
The movie follows some officers who are on the defense team against the zombies. We see things going south in the movie very soon. The movie feels very ‘meta,’ and this genre is something directors have been exploring a lot lately. It is always interesting to watch a sci-fi movie, and if there is Adam Driver in it, you know it is going to be mind-bending and good! Now, let us have the ending of The Dead Don’t Die explained.
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What Is The Dead Don’t Die About?
The storyline follows the globe, including the naive citizens of the tranquil town of Centerville. They are all about to suffer the ravages of corporate greed when the warm sun refuses to set, and a succession of similarly strange events begin to unfold. After that, we see that as Chief Cliff Robertson and Officer Ronnie Peterson, the town’s stone-faced cops, stop for doughnuts and coffee at the town’s restaurant. There, they see odd activity in the moon-lit graveyard, and a blood-soaked scene of slaughter could only mean one thing: flesh-eating zombies!
As hordes of ruthless, ravenous zombies flood into the once peaceful village wanting meat, Officer Mindy Morrison and the beautiful katana-wielding undertake, Zelda, join the army of defenders. After all this, we see that humans are increasingly in danger of becoming endangered. The Dead Don’t Die has a ‘meta’ feel from beginning to end. This is why the fans have been so confused regarding the ending. The characters of the movie freely admit that they are in a movie, and the country song by Sturgill Simpson, ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ becomes a reoccurring track. The Dead Don’t Die is a clear foreshadowing of the coming catastrophe.
The Dead Don’t Die Ending Explained
From act to act, we see that Ronnie Peterson declares forcefully that ‘it is all going to end terribly’. Even when the writing is on the wall, Murray tries to figure out why the end is approaching. The first few murders are done by two Zombies. Also, we see that Selena Gomez, who is a real-life pop star, is in the cast of the movie. She is a hipster figure who is slaughtered by zombies and beheaded by Officer Ronnie Peterson. The movie carries the idea that says the celebrity culture will mean nothing when the world ends or that celebrity adulation adds to a distorted sense of reality. This is a very bold idea to present on the big screen where you know the celebrities are your friends.
The film comes to a strange and surreal conclusion. The zombie army, as the audience already knows, takes over the city, killing everyone who comes in its path. Most of the humans living, including the dinner ladies, the motel owner, the gas station owner, the hippy tourists, and others, have died. Robertson, Ronnie Peterson, and Zelda Winston, the owner of the funeral house, are the only survivors. The final sequence establishes that Zelda is an alien on vacation in the United States. The audience witness when zombies take over the police station, Zelda uses the computer to call her taxi (UFO) to return to her world. The genuine witnesses to this weird surrealism are Robertson and Peterson.
Are Humans Endangered As The Ending Approaches?
As shown by a sequence and her free trip to space, Zelda looks to be some sort of alien mole. Multiple viewings may show different objectives, but it’s evident that she planned an escape and is unconcerned about zombies. So we pose a question: did Zelda play a role in the zombie apocalypse? Was it her idea to endanger human beings and let zombies take over?
Before they meet their end, Peterson informs Robertson that Jim had let him read the entire script, so he knew things weren’t going to go well from the start. He didn’t write about alien invasions. He was just aware of a zombie apocalypse. In the end, Robertson loads his gun and leaps onto the battlefield. Before all this, the world was already in shambles for reasons other than a Zombie invasion. Things were in disarray, with lifeless humans wandering aimlessly across the face of the Earth. Their only goal was to make money. High-tech cars have been used to highlight the layer. This increased the production’s value. Is it possible that the alien race was to be blamed for the zombie invasion? We will never know. However, this enormous alien twist reminds us of The World’s End’s last scene.
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