Zombies attacked the people of Philadelphia and by biting them they make another zombie within 12 seconds. The duration of transformation of the humans into the zombies is so fast that there is no time for any reaction or running away.
The leading man of the movie, Gerry Lane, is a former investigator of the United Nations who has spent many years of his life in the countries which are involved it war and conflict, but for dealing with his family issues and the problem he faced in his job in the UN, he left the job forever.
Soon, the audience will encounter a world that is captured by zombies and Gerry Lane, the investigator of the UN is summoned for the service because of his specialty. The service which is beyond his personal problems with the UN, thus immediately he accepts the cooperation with the UN.
His dependence on the United Nations evokes the sense of being neutral and independent in the viewers.
He leaves Philadelphia for Newark, New Jersey where he and his family are taken to the aircraft carrier far from the coast by rescue helicopters. There, a deal is offered to him: if he accepts to cooperate with an epidemiologist and his secret team in finding the patient “zero”, i.e. the first person who has caught the disease, he and his family members can be safe forever on the aircraft carrier. Then he gets on the military helicopter to go to South Korea.
He is clearly investigating how the virus was created and how it is spread all over the globe. South Korea, is the first place where the existence of the zombies has been reported, but there is no significant point in South Korea, except a weapon dealer who had a connection with the CIA and had been selling weapons to the North Korea, and now he is apprehended by the UN soldiers. The dialogue between Gerry Lane and him may be the summary of the movie when Gerry asks:
Man: They sell the virus to all of their advocates.
Gerry: Why’d you sell guns to the North Koreans?
Man: Why not?
Gerry: Are they surviving this?
Man: Indeed they are.
Gerry: Using your guns.
Man: Guns are useful; they have influence.
Gerry: How then?
Man pulls off the last remained tooth in his mouth with difficulty from the root and says: “They took the anatomical power of zombies, they beat all 23 millions in less than 24 hours.”
The greatest feat of social engineering in history. It’s brilliant. No teeth, No bite, No great spread.
Gerry: Bullshit.
Man: Why do you have to burn them to ashes to get them to finally stop?
Why do they move like a plague? Why is the Israel winning?
Gerry: How is Israel winning?
Man: They sealed off their entire country. Days before the zombies attacked men.
First to know, first to act.
Gerry: People have been building walls there for two millennia.
Man: Yes, that’s over, all those thousands of years of work finished a week ago. Impeccable timing is all.
Then he introduces Jurgen Warmbrunn to Gerry to meet him in the Jerusalem and find his answer.
Warmbrunn thought the cause of erecting the wall was a rumor at first, but when he investigated the matter, he found out that it was true. He heard about zombies in a communiqué by Indian army for the first time.
On the way of visiting the Israeli West Bank barrier in Jerusalem, he tells Gerry that Jews never anticipated that they might end up in Nazis force labor camps in 1930 or might get massacred in the 1972 Olympic games or even they didn’t believe the Arabs’ war against Israel in 1973, although they had observed the Arabic armies movements.
But this time, learning from the possible dangers, Warmbrunn, a Mossad employee of high rank, detects this danger, builds the West Bank barrier of Jerusalem as a way out of to save Israel.
Then, he takes Gerry to a house, to see the security walls of Jerusalem form its window. High walls and strong constructions which are as strong as the current west bank barrier in the occupied Palestine.
These are the way out and the solid walls of Jerusalem, two of the most secured ramparts of Israel, Warmbrunn says.
Watching the people who have Islamic and Arabic appearances enter the city, Gerry asks: “Do you allow people to enter?”
“Every person we save is one less zombie to fight”, Warmbrunn says.
In this movie, Israeli soldiers are the peacekeeping troops who may be in danger by zombies at any moment. They are the protectors of the Jew’s Jerusalem and the refugee Muslims. Interestingly, they are the brave soldiers who fight with zombies to death.
Then, the peaceful people in that square, some holding Israel’s flag and some holding Palestine’s flag, start singing a hymn in Hebrew calmly and peacefully and they enjoy their happiness in an intimate environment. Jews are practicing their own rituals and Muslims are praying together. A casually dressed Jewish girl, face to face with a veiled Muslim girl, are singing a Hebrew peace hymn.
Arab Muslims welcome peace and take refuge in Israel and under the shelter of this land’s tranquility they are filled with joy.
At the moment, a helicopter passes over the crowd with the camera that shows the view of the other side of the tall security walls where the zombies are moving towards the walls but hindered by the big West Bank barrier.
Zombies are sensitive to the noise and it stimulates and attracts them to the center of the noise. The loud noise of the peace party stimulates them and leads to their insane attack to the walls. Scattered zombies climb up each other’s head and body and make a hill of zombies so far that its height reaches the height of the walls quickly and pour into Jerusalem. Jerusalem falls, too. The huge number of zombies and their blitz and fast attack leaves no place for resistance.
In the meantime, only a slim boy and a frail old man are not attacked. It appears as if zombies don’t see them. Gerry sees these scenes while he is on the run.
The hand of the Israeli female soldier who is responsible for protecting Gerry and is escorting him to the airport, gets bitten by one the zombies and Gerry cuts off her hand immediately to prevent her from becoming a zombie.
This woman accompanies Gerry till the end of the story. They can reach the plane just before it takes off. Gerry looks out the window and sees Jerusalem and Dome of the Rock surrounded by bloodshed and smoke and is attacked by zombies and the last defense fort is also collapsed by the zombies.
Now, Gerry is sitting on the last plane, along with homeless and wandering Jewish refugees that could take off before zombies attacked the airport while they along the pilot have no clear destination. This scene is repeatedly depicted on condition of Jewish refugees in other movies in different ways.
After treating the wound of Jewish female soldier, Gerry goes over the scenes of zombies’ attack and a few people who haven’t been targeted by zombies in his mind and figures the zombies weak points.
According to the guidance of a UN agent he goes to Wales, to the world health organization and its equipped laboratories, where the doctors of one ward themselves have become zombies.
The researchers are studying zombies. They know that bullets don’t stop them but there is also no other way but to shoot them in the head. There, Gerry examines his hypothesis. He has already realized that those who haven’t been targeted by zombies, are the patients suffering from Typhus, Meningitis and so on. Therefore, he injects the microbes of these diseases into himself and realizes that his method works and he passes the zombies without being seen.
In this way, zombies realize that those who are infected by these diseases are dying and therefore they do nothing to them.
Soon, the vaccines that are made using this method are distributed all over the globe as a camouflage and a shield against zombies, and a few remaining people in the world, are vaccinated and start confronting and killing the zombies.
Then a huge pile of dead zombies are shown that bulldozers are gathering and setting them on the fire.
At this point someone anonymous says: “It’s settled! It’s over with! There’s no forgiveness in hell! Whatever goes to hell, stays in hell!”
Then, Gerry is the narrator who says: “If you can fight, fight! Help each other, be prepared for anything.”
And the last sentence which is the most amazing one is uttered at the end of the story: “Our war has just begun”.
Although the character of “zombies” is a repeated theme that has been used in several movies such as: “Resident Evil”, “I am Legend”; and PC games such as “Call of Duty”, the “World War Z” for the first time, transforms the wild zombies who have no identity that are created in the research center and occupied the U.S. in the “Resident Evil”, to the zombies who have identity and occupy the world by their astonishing fast growth.
The last remaining city is Jerusalem and the last defense forts are the security walls made by Israelis. The movie reveals its intent very soon, zombies are the Muslims who are progressing and conquering the strongholds of the world quickly while the last fort they still couldn’t capture is Israel that due to the Jewish ethnic sentiment, the Jews are the only grandchildren of the Isaiah and zombies cannot conquer them.
What does the movie intend to convey by depicting this quick spread? During the recent years, uncontrollable wave of conversion to Islam among the citizens of the U.S. and Europeans has terrified Zionists and colonial countries. Maybe the quick spread in the movie refers to this contagious wave of people converting to Islam.
The Israeli army shelter particular Muslims who come to them in the movie and they sing the peace hymn together with Muslims and wave the flags of Israel and Palestine while dancing, so that these refugee Muslims don’t turn into violent zombies. In the entire movie, however, it is impossible to ignore the anti-Zionist identity of zombies and the constructions such as the security walls and it is impossible to consider any identity for zombies other than being Muslims.
The movie mustn’t be even watched from any viewpoint other than that of a Zionist or it will be nothing but an imaginary movie that a part of it is recorded in Jerusalem.
But, from a Zionist point of view, what is the virus that has captured the world quickly and no one has the resisting power against it while it is going to take Jerusalem out of their hand soon?
Beside the event of sending Jews to Nazis concentration camps, 1972 Munich Massacre and the 1973 Arab–Israeli War (also known as Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War) , what would be the next threat to Israel which made them build the security walls around Jerusalem?
Who are these people that bullets have no power to stop them? Who wants to conquer Jerusalem in the real world?
What is the role of the security walls in Israel and why they are so similar to forts in the movie? Why have people been building walls in this land since 2000 years ago?
Why is the plane carrying the Jewish people, as the last means of rescue, again wandering aimlessly and has no clear destination?
What is the war that has just begun according to the last sentence in the movie?
These questions can help us in solving the puzzle behind the movie. It would be useful to refer to the Quran and study some similarities.
The Verse 14 of Sura Al-Hashr [59:14] says:
“They will not fight against you all together except in fortified cities, or from behind walls.”
Also the Verse 7 of Sura Al-Isra reads:
“So when the second of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.” (17:7)
From now on, they are looking for a way to hide from the eyes of zombies, and the next time, after their failure, by recognizing the weakness of zombies, destroy them once and for ever.
Passing the security walls reminds a critic of the vehicles crossing the walls of the Zion city in the “Matrix Trilogy”. Anyway, in the category of imaginary “Apocalyptic” movies, the aggression against Israel and Zionists is being depicted during the recent years. Unlike, “Matrix” and other movies which finally show the Zion (the Mount Zion) as the last remaining city of mankind, the “World War Z” frankly and openly depicts Jerusalem as the last city of mankind which is under attack.
