The best scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a musical war for symbols

Warning: This essay includes spoilers for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

Symbols still matter, even at the end of the world. The Bone Temple, the namesake of Nia DaCosta’s new 28 Years Later film, is a potent one, not just because of its dramatic presentation, but because of its ability to shapeshift depending on the eyes of its visitors. Last year, in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, it first emerged as a sinister specter on the horizon before, upon closer inspection, becoming a darkly beautiful monument to a nation’s fallen dead...