'The Dead Don't Die' In Jarmusch's Latest, But Your Patience Will
NPR'The Dead Don't Die' In Jarmusch's Latest, But Your Patience Will Enlarge this image toggle caption Abbot Genser/Focus Features Abbot Genser/Focus Features "This is going to end badly," Adam Driver says, over and over with slight variations, in the new zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die. But as The Dead Don't Die smirks through its ironic corpse pile-up, dispatching a parade of beloved actors like rancid meat and playing the same original Sturgill Simpson tune on loop, it's hard not to wonder if the joke is on us for watching it. Rather than go for big, freaky set-pieces, Jarmusch instead emphasizes the ways in which everyday rhythms are thrown off: unnaturally extended daylight hours, all the pets running away, hordes of undead teens muttering "Wifi." Sponsor Message The most charitable reading is that all this arch pessimism is the point; that Jarmusch has his actors repeat the same jokes because we're all already zombies deep down and there's no cure for us; and that he'd rather use the small window of time we have left on this planet to celebrate the very select handful of people whom he believes make life worthwhile.
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