Final Destination

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“Alex Browning is among a group of high school students readying themselves for a trip to Europe. When he suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but instead he is thrown off of the plane along others, but the plane actually crashes after they get off. Weeks later one of the survivors mysteriously dies, and Alex realizes that things just got more complex.”

How have I not done this movie yet? Not only was it a refreshing concept but it also spawned sequels we would line up to see just to watch the creative death scenes!

This movie doesn’t give us a monster or a maniac. This movie asks us the absolute question all horror movies skirt around: Can you cheat death? By not having something tangible to fight against, our protagonist is then fighting the very essence of mortal finality.

The other beauty is that this notion of death isn’t based on any sort of specific religious text but more along the line of “when it’s your time…”

But why did he have the premonition then? The very opening sequence give us a question that is never truly answered. All throughout the movie, Alex is given all of these clues and hints, but by whom?

Ultimately, no matter your beliefs, you cannot help but be in awe of the death scenes that keep you trying to guess the ultimate end for each victim.

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT

Can you play “skip the line” forever? While he may have found out about death’s plan, there is only so much you can look out for. As is evident by the final “death.”

In the end, we all have an ed. This movie poses the question of whether or not knowing would make it better or worse. And is that end really in our control? Or does postponing the inevitable make the suffering more?