Narrative Expectations: I began by watching the original Final Destination movie, as there are 8 total movies. I knew the plot of the movie, but I didn’t really know what to expect. This Thriller/Horror film always begins with a character who has a vision or premonition of their death in some massive accident, and out of shock and fear they manage to avoid the tragedy, saving other people in the process (since they changed their actions). This movie’s situation was a large car accident on the interstate with multiple casualties. A girl getting ready to merge with the interstate has a vision of the crash and she tops in the middle of the entrance ramp. This causes all the people behind her to not be involved.
The twist is that after these events occur, all these people that ‘cheated’ death, are now experiencing paranormal activity type stuff, and one by one the survivors of the accident all begin to die in super random ways, in the order that they would have died. I think I expected it to be more corny but the director did a good job of making it interesting.
Story and Plot: I feel as that the writes tried to shoot this whole film in a shadowy eerie vibe to say as if that death was always looming over everyone, and they were very creative in killing off the characters, which involve meticulous coincidences and impossible chain reactions. Regardless though it was immersive and captivating.
Causality: Pretty much the majority of the decisions that the characters in this movie made decided if they would die soon in the movie. The cause is avoiding death’s plan, and the effect is that death will attempt to continue with that same plan, but he will now make sure it goes through.
Time: Throughout the movie the time frame remains generally in sequence as most of the events in the film happen over the course of just a few days or maybe a week or two. However many of these movies will have the main characters ‘beat’ death, but to only have it come back to kill them in a exposition part of the movie. The plot was swiftly paced and I never felt like it was a drag.
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