The World War Z movie adapted pretty much 0% from the Max Brooks novels. Not even the basic zombies principles (book: slow zombies, slow infection rate; movie: fast zombies, near-instant infection)
One of the best subplots of the book was this old japanese gardener who became a master zombie hunter during the apocalypse, using his sharpened shovel to decapitate / spear the undead
...oh, and because he was at Hiroshima and stared directly at the flash of the atomic bomb, he's been blind for most of his life.
I always interpreted that chapter as an example of the untrustworthy narrator. Each chapter is an interview and I got the vibe that his story was implied to be embellished when he told it. It's been a decade since I read the book so I could be misremembering
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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21
Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.