Huxley´s “Brave new world” and Orwell´s “1984” are accepted to be the dystopias that best represent the menaces that many intellectuals saw in fascism and communism, during what Hobsbawm called the “short twentieth century” (1914–1991). Since the fall of the “Iron Curtain”, democratic liberalism did not have not to compete seriously with alternative ideologies, and the Western way of life has become hegemonic worldwide. However, democracy and free market have not always been accompanied with a respect for human rights and the Rule of Law, as it showed the “War on Terror”. Likewise, the growing emphasis on the neoliberal economic policies is accelerating the processes of privatization and individualization of social life that were already in progress. In this paper we will try to show that the British film “28 days later” is an unexpected and metaphorical account of the these and other issues denounced by present-day intellectuals.
