PART I
RAGE – Animal activists break into a lab to release Chimpanzees despite warnings that it will free a virus called Rage. The test chimpanzees ultimately attack the activists and give them the virus that turns them into homicidal beings.
JIM WAKES UP – 28 days later, Jim wakes up in a deserted London and searches for signs of life. Jim ends up finding a group who is already infected and they try to kill him.
SURVIVORS – Jim is rescued by Selena and Mark who bring them to their secret hideout. They tell Jim that the Rage virus spread throughout the city while he was in a coma and that “The Infected” people have led to an apocalyptic London.
JIM’S PARENTS – Jim, Mark and Selena travel to Jim’s parents house and find that his parents committed suicide. The infected discover them and Mark gets contaminated. Selena then kills him so that he doesn’t turn into one of the infected.
APARTMENT – The next day, Selena and Jim explore an apartment where there seems to be activity going on. The infected discover them and, by the instruction of a man in the apartment, head into his home while he fends off the infected. Selena and Jim spend the night there with Frank and his daughter, Hannah. The next morning, the group decides to seek out a group of soldiers who claim to have the solution to this crisis.
FRANK’S CABS – The four head out of the city and eventually reach a deserted blockade. Frank gets infected from the blood of a dripping corpse and attacks Hannah. Hiding soldiers shoot Frank and take back Jim, Selena and Hannah back to their home base.
THE HOME BASE – Jim finds out that the soldiers are planning on forcing sexual servitude on Hannah and Selena and attempts to escape the house. They’re stopped by the soldiers and Jim gets imprisoned for the night.
THE WOODS – The soldiers lead Jim into the woods to be executed and Jim is able to escape while they are distracted. Back at the house, Selena gives Hannah pills so she can be sedated if the soldiers do rape them.
JIM RETURNS – Jim runs back to the house and unleashes Mailer, an infected prisoner, that they had chained there for observation. Mailer attacks the soldiers while Jim secretly moves throughout the house to save Selena and Hannah.
THE ESCAPE – The three run out to the cab and Jim gets shot by West. Hannah takes over and pushes West toward the infected so they can all escape. They head towards the hospital to save Jim.
THE END – 28 days later, Jim wakes up in bandages. He is in a remote house and gets up to find Selena and Hannah. Hannah claims to hear a jet and the three run out to lay out a signal so they can be discovered and saved.
PART II 1:28:16
This shot is taken from the scene where the soldiers are stripping Selena from her clothes and arranging to have both Hannah and Selena be sexual servants wherein the soldiers will eventually rape them. This is a medium shot that places emphasis both on a soldier watching Selena be abused and the act of Selena resisting the other soldier.
The left third of the camera shows the soldier holding the dress that they presumably want Selena to wear; however, this soldier’s expression suggests shock and discomfort with the action taking place before him. The rest of the shot is the other soldier forcing Selena’s clothes off but this is all presented through the reflection of a mirror. This shot is compelling because the mirror is reflecting a full shot perspective of the action contrasting with the camera’s medium shot. There is a tense imbalance taking place here as the viewers attention is forced to switch back and forth between the mirror shot and the camera shot.
The soldier on the left is holding a luxurious red dress that sticks out in comparison to the muted whites, blacks and green in the rest of the frame. The red suggests sex and lust in the context of this scene sustaining normative ideas about what is considered attractive despite the essential collapse of society after this epidemic. The notion of racializing sexuality or sexualizing racial identity is central to this specific shot and scene. In this case, a black woman’s agency is being compromised. Her body is not shown in clear form, it is blurry and not entirely pictured. Conversely, the outline of her aggressors body is quite distinct and positioned to overpower her. The black soldier who is watching this take place looks quite uncomfortable and in a position of inferiority and powerlessness. His job is to stand back and hold the dress demonstrating compliance, but also being silenced.