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For me, NOTLD is about the seeds of hate spreading through the masses, turning people into animalistic shambling horrors. And one of the points made in NOTLD is that people in modern day America aren't that much better. The last thing you see is Ben getting shot by government commisioned zombie hunters. My theory on this is because Romero thinks nobody looks at people as people. And it's pretty true. Look how sympathetic he is toward the zombies in Land of the Dead, and what a pack of animals the bikers in Dawn of the Dead are. It's all about dehumanization. Ben, as a black man is no more of a person in the 60's than the zombies these guys shoot down. That's my interpretation at least.
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