Don't make useless games with the god of death!

Hilma 2022-01-26 08:09:24

There are three in total, the first one is excellent, the second and third are garbage, because there is no innovation in the overall structure, the story is basically the same, just change the name and change the way of death.

For this movie, the first thing that jumped out after watching it was "The Seventh Seal". Although one of the two is a purely commercial film and the other is a purely literary film, the stories are indeed strikingly similar - the protagonist hopes to play a game with the god of death to get rid of death. However, the final conclusion of both films is the same: man cannot defeat God.

In addition, another major feature of this film is the setting of suspense. Hitchcock has a famous example of what suspense is: Two people walk into a room, sit down to talk, and suddenly a bomb goes off under the table. - This process provides surprises to the audience. Conversely, if the audience first sees a murderer entering the house and hiding the bomb on the table before they enter the house, then the next two people enter the house without finding the bomb and still sit and talk. --Then the whole process is called suspense. Knowing the answer in advance seems to make the story boring, but on the contrary, reasonable suspense settings often make the story exciting. This movie is just that. The protagonist has the ability to predict, but he is not believed by everyone, and then he dies one by one. The story is simple and exciting, and it is a typical movie that makes people watch very high.

In addition, the ending of the movie gives an ending that is not the ending, which can be said to be more ingenious. The audience knows that everyone must be unable to avoid the coming of death, but in the end, the movie did not end until everyone died, but ended with a few people left. While leaving a certain room for imagination, it also makes people look forward to the sequel (BS again for the sequel to this movie).

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Final Destination quotes

  • [With cups of coffee, Alex and Clear sit down at a Espresso shop corner table]

    Alex Browning: The mortician said that Death has a design. Okay. I'm talking about omens. How do we know that just by sitting here - by, by sipping this coffee, or breathing the air, or even crossing the intersection - that we haven't even started in motion the events that will some day lead to our death: forty years from now, ten years from now, tomorrow. We don't. Unless we open ourselves up...

    Alex Browning: [as clear glances nervously at the intersection, Alex draws from his pocket the tiny slice of paper that reads "Tod" and slides it across the table to her]

    Alex Browning: ...to the signs that It's willing to show us?

    Clear Rivers: I don't understand. Did you see Tod die? Did it happen again, like on the plane?

    Alex Browning: [shaking his head] No. No, it didn't, but, I mean, it might as well have. This is a message from something, Clear, or someone - hinting at a design.

    Clear Rivers: Total bullshit. I mean, you can find death omens anywhere you want to.

    [Alex glances at the window of the Espresso shop and sees the ghostly reflection of a bus passing by. As she continues to talk, ominous music rises and Alex glances worriedly around the streets]

    Clear Rivers: Coffee. Starts with a C and ends with an E. So does the word "choke." So, what, we're going to choke to death? I wanna hear you.

    [Alex glances anxiously over his shoulder again]

    Clear Rivers: We'll go nuts if you start with this shit.

    Alex Browning: The mortician said that Death has a design. Right? Now, what if you, me, Tod, Carter, Terry, Billy, Mrs. Lewton messed up that design. For whatever reason, I, I saw Death's plan. We cheated him. But what if it was our time? What if we were not meant to get off that plane? What if it still is our time? If it is, then it's not finished, and we will die - now, not later - unless, unless we find the patterns and cheat It again.

    [Behind Alex's back, Carter drives his car up to the intersection and waits for the light. Terry is sitting next to him. Carter glances over to see Alex and Clear, and he scowls. Terry smiles at Carter, then sees them too, and her smile fades, as though fearful of a confrontation]

    Clear Rivers: After hearing you, I, I do believe...

    [Alex smiles]

    Clear Rivers: ...that Tod killed himself.

    [Alex's face turns serious]

  • Alex Browning: What if there is a design?