Reel 1 · The standoff
Flow · Kling · Dreamina
Vertical 9:16 cinematic zombie love story, 35mm film, cold desaturated blue-grey grade. The woman from the first reference image is the survivor; keep her face, hair and outfit. The man from the second reference image has turned into a zombie: same face and clothes, ashen grey cracked skin, milky white eyes, torn clothes; no blood, no gore. An empty rain-soaked street at dusk. He staggers toward her. Side-on medium close-up: she raises a pistol with trembling hands, crying, and cannot shoot. Close-up of his milky eyes, a flicker of recognition. She lets the pistol fall and opens her arms; he stumbles into them. Rain, a distant siren, one soft piano note. No dialogue, no text.