Cervantes Magazine Number 18: Criptomovies and Criptoseries

ivan-perez-anies (67)in #spanish • 6 years ago (edited)

Death is a serious matter, we don’t know of anyone who has come back from death in modern times and has become a Youtuber to tell us about the afterlife ... There is a guy named Jesus who said he was resurrected, but that was more than two thousand years ago and the story is not 100% reliable. In other religions there are also resurrections or paradises with great parties and an eternity of luxury, but we have the same problem; No one has returned from death and told us what the matter is about.

This leaves a door open to the imagination and as everyone knows, where there is imagination there are movies, series ... and also books, stories and plays, but I’m not in charge of those disciplines xD

What’s the afterlife like? Does death hurt? Do we still have some kind of consciousness or are we asleep like after a night of drinking? We don’t know ... some people who have been close to the point of no return speak of a tunnel with a light, they go towards the light but suddenly the exit of the tunnel disappears and they came back to life. They all agree to feel great peace which tells me that they were either high from morphine or that their nervous system was off to save energy.

Be it as it may, the enigma that exists after life has been used in movies recurrently. The human being is afraid of death, so it is a good element of attraction to include in audiovisual products.

There are hundreds of possible uses for the concept of "death" in a series or film. We will talk about some of them:

An action movie that begins with the death of a direct relative of the protagonist is a guarantee that it will be an orgy of death and destruction. Revenge is going to be terrible!! If they don’t kill the woman, the children or someone close and only kidnap them, the thing is different, the fear of killing the kidnapped makes the matter develop in a different way.

An example of an action movie whose main argument is revenge for the death of a loved one may be Kill Bill

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Within this subgenre we can include a saga that I don’t want to miss in this article and that is in charge of showing us the most ingeniously disturbing ways of dying. I’m talking about Final Destination and its thousand and one ways to travel to the other side, hahaha there are some that are a truly macabre.

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In horror movies death is a fundamental element, without death there is no substance, nobody is scared if a dark being appears and threatens to trap you and tickle you, no! He has to catch you and kill you with pain, blood in spurts and heartbreaking cries.

If a bad guy from a horror movie kills you, even painfully, nothing much happens, in a moment you die and that’s it, you have had a hard time but, depending on your religious confession you are soon being received by Saint Peter, in a harem with a bunch of virgins or preparing a reincarnation and praying you don’t come back as a beetle ... if you've been a bad person, then the hell of each of the religions awaits you. But really scares everyone, whether they fear of some god or not, is the subject of zombies. Nobody likes them, come on, don’t fuck with me !! If I die I want to decompose normally in a hole, or better, to be incinerated and that's it, so there is no doubt, but having to walk all eternity looking to eat like a hungry dog while I deform and rotten due to putrefaction, that shit is not cool!

There are hundreds of thousands of examples of horror movies with death as a protagonist, I would say that practically all, although the main representative of this type of film, The Exorcist, does not have death as its main character, but demonic possession. But to name an iconic i’ll say The Shining, where the father of the family wants the death of his wife and son because evil wants it that way …

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We also have suspense films or crime thrillers whose main premise is death, investigating white collar crimes does not have the same glamor as investigating murders, that’s how it is and it will never change. Death scares us and attracts us strongly. There are many and very well made movies, coincidentally with Morgan Freeman almost always appearing in them, hahaha. But if there is an impressive movie it’s got to be Seven, in it the deaths are related to the deadly sins and at the end we can see a reaction to death that is totally natural but not politically correct. What would you do if you were presented with the head of a loved one in a box?

The Silence of the Lambs is another great exponent of this type of films that play with death and the psychopathology of those who don’t conceive death as something more negative than life itself.

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Romantic films, of good old fashioned “love” also play with death often to enhance their stories ... a good classic tale in which the two are madly in love but one of them is sick and dying little by little little throughout the film and a sea of tears is guaranteed ... I personally don’t like them too much, but I know that there is a lot of film buffs who enjoy a good "weeping" from time to time.

Another way of using death is when a member of the couple dies, but remains in the form of a disembodied ether helping from the underworld to flourish their love ... yes, I know you know I'm talking about Ghost! It is the most romantic film with deaths in history, that pottery scene, with the help of the ghost of my love is already part of human history.

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Films that treat death in a more serious and transcendental manner are also very impressive, no one likes to go through a long period of health deterioration that ends in death but, and I don’t know why, we are attracted to the stories that tell us about the misadventures of strangers. Then we suffer, but because we know someone else dies, we suffer less. On this occasion I will give as an example a Spanish film, Mar Adentro, which deals with the real fight of a man lying in a bed who wished he could die in peace and when he decided. The eternal debate of who the life belongs to, whether to the person, to a god, to the state or something else ... but that’s a topic for another post and I'm not going to get involved.

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This time i have focused more on the world of cinema, but the equivalence to the series world is obvious, because what works on film is used to make a series so I have not differentiated.

I expect your contributions to the subject in the comments, What film with the DEATH theme has impressed you lately?