Shopping carts crashing (servers) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
In post-apocalyptic cinema the slow sweeping shot of a half-submerged shopping cart in a river is a standard - just before the horde of zombies lurch onscreen. Symbolic of consumerism under late capitalism, in these films the shopping cart is a marker of our (lost) civilization. Shopping carts also evoke memories of childhood - hours
