Basically, fate was asking him to pull a Heroic Sacrifice for a chance at saving his wife and a little boy extremely high risk, but also high reward. Hell, with a lot, but not-unprecedented-in-zombie-fiction amount of Plot Armor, maybe all three of them could have gotten out. More would enter in seconds (if that), but if he'd charged them full-tilt, he might be able to distract them long enough for his wife and the child to run past and go out the window. I thought about the exact situation he was in a few times at the exact moment he made the choice, there were only two zombies in the room.Hell, even before then she was cornered in a room by them with no weapon, the fact that she had enough time to get to the window to bash at it is a miracle, seeing as the infected tend to dogpile and smash your face into paste unless they bite or vomit on you. Plus, people seem to forget one tiny detail, Don didn't actually lie, he said he saw her die, which he did, because when he saw her last she was bashing on the window then pulled into the shadows, meaning the infected definitely had a hold of her, which is in general a death sentence.If anything Alice was being unreasonable by expecting her beloved husband to stay around to have his eyes gouged out by a pack of lunatics in a hopeless fight he would have lost very badly. He was given the opportunity to join his wife in a guaranteed torturous death or flee for his life (possibly coming back to save her later if he had the chance). The film doesn't outright say he's a coward, but the fact it's even set up as a subtext is pretty dubious considering how he only did what was necessary. He did literally the bravest thing he possibly could in that situation until eventually he lost his weapon and nearly got overwhelmed. I think the people judging Don are forgetting that prior to running away he was fighting the Infected off with a crowbar while everyone else fled.It's very likely that regardless of pragmatism, he sees himself as a coward and tries to justify his actions to get some peace of mind. Considering the war zone conditions he faced, it's pretty obvious to this ex-military troper that Don was clearly suffering from both survivor's guilt and PTSD.He's just the character who's been stripped of his Shining Armor and Grim Determination and hasn't been given anything else. The false premise seems to be that Don is portrayed as a coward.Yeah, the film had a pretty bleak moral landscape. By going back to her, he ruined everything. By abandoning his wife, he survived to look after his kids. He's not actually set up as a coward, exactly, at least not in a negative sense.I felt BAD for him when I realized he was going to be infected. I guess I'm the only one who thought his obviously real regret for his actions was supposed to make him sympathetic.He's pretty much set up as being cowardly because he lied to his children, which again isn't the worst idea in the world.
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I thought the movie was going for a Psycho-like fakeout, where the audience was supposed to think Don was the main character who'll survive all the way to the end (whereupon he'll probably make a heroic sacrifice to save his kids, probably under similar circumstances to the incident where he couldn't save his wife) until.Also, why wasn't Don the main character? He's the only interesting character in the movie!.The very exact thing he had tried to save himself from. The movie then "punishes" him for this later on by getting him infected because of his wife. But the movie sets up Don as a bad guy because he did what any person would do in that kind of situation, by refusing to get himself infected trying to 'save' his wife from a hopeless situation she put herself in and then tear her to shreds too. Don does exactly that and still barely makes it out. Why is Don set up as a craven, cowardly bastard by the movie for being forced to abandon his wife? I'm sorry, but the previous movie has already shown that taking on an infected unarmed is pure suicide, let alone masses of them, and the only hope of survival if you're unarmed is to run away or barricade yourself in a safe place.
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