In this scene Fran has just had sex with Flyboy (Steven). We can see from their facial expressions that they are incredibly fed up of what they are doing at the moment. This relates to Fran feeling that they are trapped in the mall (shown when she says shortly after this scene: “Can’t you see we’re prisoners here?”) and that they are zombies wandering the mall like they would in their everyday lives, because they are consumerist. Fran and Flyboy are zombies in their own way, because they have gotten into a routine of their own, and have become slaves to consumerism and greed.
Fran is also shown very differently in this scene in comparison to the other scene when she is putting make-up on. Just before this scene, she is putting make-up on we also get shots of mannequins, which is Romero comparing Fran to the mannequins, saying that she is not really living.
This reflects George. A. Romero’s “auteur” style (the concept that directors put their ideologies into their films which was written about by Andrew Sarris in “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962”) in which he puts in issues of the zeitgeist Into many of his films.
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