I really like Night of the Living Dead for avoiding this trope.
I really like Night of the Living Dead for avoiding this trope.
Nope also subverted the trope, although I don’t want to spoil anything about that movie because it’s best if you go in completely blind.
Us does the same thing actually. Big fan of Peele.
Yeah, symbols are imperfect representations of their essences, and each layer of abstraction is ripe for ideological obfuscation. The entirety of our culture seems trapped in a semi-orchestrated signifier dance that suppresses not only class consciousness, but consciousness in general.
Wouldn’t want to dilute their mediocrity with good writing
Is that the instance filtering that out? Thats removed lol
What are you trying to say?
A notable contribution by decolonial theory to Holocaust/fascism studies is that these phenomena weren’t unprecedented, but were the mechanisms of colonialism turned inward. Denial or ignorance of this fact hints at the fascist base of social democracy within the imperial core.
My reading of the trope isn’t about the character dying per se, but that they’re thrown away for sake of the plot or other characters’ development. They’re flat and disposable.
Whereas in Night, he outlives the other characters, is central to the plot and thesis of the movie, and his death at the end is meaningful in and of itself (both to the story at face value and symbolic interpretations of the film). But I really like Dawn too.