Ten years after The Night of the Living Dead, Romero directed Dawn of the Dead, a criticism of the consumer society and its zombified consumers. However, the film's greatest achievement, the film, highlights one of the paradoxes of modern capitalist criticism: can a work criticise a system of which it is a part?

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