Zombie
POV
Outline
for a movie
This
is a zombie tale, told from the zombie’s point of view. The zombie never
realizes he’s a zombie; to him he looks normal, not a decaying horror; it’s
everyone else who looks like a zombie, to him. Our heroid’s name is Kruger
Dunning; after the Dunning-Kruger Effect, in which the incompetent are
incompetent at realizing their own incompetence.
Kruger
Dunning dies, is buried, revenates, and digs himself out of the ground. We the
viewer see him as he sees himself; normal; and we see the real humans as Kruger
Dunning sees them; as decaying monsters. To himself he moves at a normal speed
(but with a persistent stumble) and all the others move super-fast. On occasion
he shambles past a mirror, and we see him in it, in all his rotten glory, but
of course Kruger Dunning doesn’t notice. He wonders out loud how the zombie
apocalypse got everyone except him.
In
the end he loses of course; the ‘zombies’ – i.e. real humans – are smarter and
quicker and stronger than he is. In fact we come out looking like really scary
monsters. Also he’s plagued by heat, cold, injuries and insects. In the end a
pack of dogs sniff at him, and he
decides to lie down and ‘take a nap’.
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