Lockdown and Boarding school

Lockdown and Boarding School

The tiresome cliché is that prison holds no terrors for anyone who has been to a British boarding school, at least of the type prevalent up to the late C20. It would be trite to adapt the cliché for the current lockdown, but I’d like to stand it on its head. Certain aspects of the lockdown, far from being immunised by a boarding school experience, insidiously recall some of the traumas of that experience.

Lockdown - cinematic echoes

Lockdown – Cinematic Echoes

Sean of The Dead is a comedy zombie film set in North London, using locations near to my place of lockdown. One of the conceits it indulges in is the notion that it is not easy to tell a zombie apart from the ordinarily decrepit, or from an exhausted bus passenger gurning in semi-oblivion.