00:00I think it kind of explores how, you know, where we find the UK in 28 years later is that the island's been put under a quarantine in the hopes that the problem goes away and dissipates and I think what you find here is that it doesn't go away, it's a part of nature and it in fact mutates and advances and becomes even more prevalent and something that the people who've survived have to live amongst.
00:30You know, so I think that's a really interesting aspect.
00:37Life finds a way, I think.
00:39And like you said, the first one, society's like failed, but I think society's found a way to survive in this one.
00:51Holy Island is a community that's found a way to survive, but they've sort of fallen back on their ideals, so they've sort of regressed into this sort of old way of thinking or the good old times and things like that.
01:10And I think that was definitely an interesting choice for Malice Garland and Danny, just about, you know, UK being isolated from the rest of the world.
01:19Yeah, and also in a sense of Danny saying in reference to Brexit of like, that's kind of what the UK did to itself, you know, of like, no, we're good on our own.
01:28And, you know, this element of like, nostalgia and not needing anyone for anything.
01:33And you have this young, innocent, you know, light and hope to want to sort of push beyond that and go out and discover more.
01:43So it's sort of like, yeah, this sort of young generation of hope, I guess.
01:48So there's lots in there.
01:49It's very profound, I think, this movie, but that's just Danny and Alex doing, being brilliant.
01:53What's amazing is it seems to have got worse.
02:12I mean, if you imagine that that infection is intolerance, rage, impatience, anger with each other, just crystallised into some, and exaggerated to the nth degree.
02:29Then it's, in reality, 23 years ago, when we made the first film, it was hardly anything compared to what it is now.
02:36Now we are, there's so much judgement all the time of people, and condemnation, and anger, and blame being laid at different people.
02:45And I think it's, I think we all know it's partly the responsibility of this technology, which has all made us feel very powerful, which is an incredible tool.
02:56And yet the world doesn't work like that.
02:58We're not the most important person in the world.
03:01We never will be.
03:02And this just makes you feel like you are.
03:04Why can't you do what I want?
03:06Well, this tells me you'll all do.
03:08And so, it's sort of like, that's a reason enough alone, I think, to go back to this species of film.
03:18Horror lets you look at stuff like that.
03:24Seven, six, eleven, five, nine and twenty miles today.
03:30Four, eleven, seventeen, thirty-two the day before.
03:33Booth, booth, booth, booth, booth, moving up and down again.
03:39There's no discharge in the war.
03:42There's also COVID had happened, that we'd all experienced, which felt incredibly familiar suddenly, weirdly.
03:49And also for the British, we went through Brexit, which is an isolation of our own choosing, but which also manifests itself in behaviour that you can see that the people of this island in the story then also cherish, which is kind of old, like living in the 50s.
04:08Boys are boys, girls are girls, the boys fight, we train them into being heroic Englishmen, fighting with bows and arrows, killing the French.
04:17You know, it's that kind of stuff that's kind of, all this stuff feeds into a film like this.
04:23It's great, it's great fun to do, it really is.
04:27Don't, don't, don't, don't look at what's in front of you.
04:32Booth, booth, booth, booth, booth, moving up and down again.
04:37Men, men, men, men, men go mad with watching them.
04:42I don't know how much the younger generation, which obviously in a way, because he's 12, he represents, I don't know how much the younger generation will be able to negotiate the problems that lie ahead for them with AI and the growth of technology.
05:01And it's exponential growth, it's just growing so fast the whole time.
05:06And where it will lead them, will it lead to war, will it lead to robotisation, you know, as they graft us with machines.
05:16There are many, many challenges, but you have to hold out that hope, because the alternative is despair, really.
