The Place That All Roads Lead To

So, a little bit ago, the latest segment in According to the Movies dealt with death, and no matter how you try and mess with it, you can never escape it! I posted two pictures of death in film, both radically different. The summed up the vast spectrum that death can occupy in the movies. One image was from The Seventh Seal; the other was from The Final Destination. Lovely Jess of Insight into Entertainment commented on the piece, expressing interest in seeing my deconstruction of death in film taken to a new level! Well, I can never say no to a woman! So, if you'll indulge me, I'll attempt to delve deep into the world of cinema and see how death is treated! Join me, won't you?

According to the Movies #8

If the movies say it, it must be true!

In keeping with the stuff my L&T professor has made me watch, today's lesson concerns death! Death is always there in movies! There's barely a film that doesn't have someone dying in some capacity, be it a character we have gotten to know throughout the whole thing, or hordes of faceless henchmen falling before a never ending hail of machine gun fire! You cannot escape death in the movies. Many have tried; all have failed!

The Lesson: You cannot cheat death! You can try, but you'll fail!

If you try, it will either turn out like this...

...or like this!

Bon Appétit! :)

Death and All of His Friends

Gotta love the artsy, liberal, hipster school, don't ya? For this three week seminar I'm a part of before school actually begins for real, I am required to attend screenings of some pretty interesting movies. One of them was just weird and surreal, and, as such, I have nothing to say about it (The Spirit of the Beehive). The other I honestly slept through (Killer of Sheep). What? It's college. I have work and I'm staying up till one or two most nights. Don't lay judgement on me; you know you were the exact same way! But, I digress. Where were we? Oh, right. The third film that the L&T professors have required me to watch, so far, is a bonafide classic. Wonderfully grim, surprisingly funny, with solid acting and beautiful imagery to boot. This is one classic that deserves a look.

Death takes his chess very seriously!