Andrea and Alex evoke the spectre of Death in their analysis of James Wong’s turn of the century ode to vibes. From risk society to the abject, Final Destination has a plan for everyone.
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REQUIRED READING
Final Destination. Dir. James Wong, 2000.
EXTRA CREDIT
An Experiment with Time. J.W. Dunne’s exploration of pre-cognitivism and serialism as it relates to our experience of time.
The Society of the Spectacle. Guy Debord’s Marxist analysis of how representation of events has become a unifying human experience to our detriment.
Santa Muerte. An article on the controversial Mexican saint of the disenfranchised.
Risk Society. A summary of Anthony Giddens’ fourth chapter of Modernity and Self Identity (1991).
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This episode made me feel like a child watching her parents trying to keep it together in face of their pending divorce.
This was a great episode, as always, but I’m SO STOKED ABOUT THE NEXT ONE!
As I work on catching up through the episodes, I skipped ahead to this one because I’ve been meaning to rewatch Final Destination anyway. This has probably been my least favorite episode. Aside from the painful skit, it seemed like you couldn’t find enough to talk about in the movie and instead had to talk about vaguely peripheral politics. Considering the extensive cultural impact this movie has had, it deserves better.
The best part was when something started hissing with about 20 minutes left in the show and I freaked out because I thought there was a snake in the car. At least it woke me up.