With such radical change from such a drastic event (apocalypse in film being at its core a metaphor for a deep rooted rational fear of drastic change) It does not seem to far from reality that when everything we know is gone it is human agency to come together. Consider the world wars or cold war in which whilst racism and sexism run rampant, a common fear brought people of all walks of life together.
Bringing rampant racism or xenophobia into a script for the sake of realism would do nothing but distract from the story being told...
chemlight_soup t1_jd3tz33 wrote
Reply to One oddity about post-apocalypse movies and series: gender and racial equality! by inmate911
With such radical change from such a drastic event (apocalypse in film being at its core a metaphor for a deep rooted rational fear of drastic change) It does not seem to far from reality that when everything we know is gone it is human agency to come together. Consider the world wars or cold war in which whilst racism and sexism run rampant, a common fear brought people of all walks of life together.
Bringing rampant racism or xenophobia into a script for the sake of realism would do nothing but distract from the story being told...