Film Analysis: Final Destination 5

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TITLE:

Final Destination 5

YEAR OF PROD:

2013

TYPE:

FILM X

TELEVISION

DOC.

MUSIC

ADVERT

MUSIC VID.

OTHER:

DIRECTOR

Steven Quale

PRODUCER

WRITER

Eric Heisserer Jeffery Reddick

PRODUCTION COMPANY

New Line Cinema, Practical Pictures, Parallel  Zide

KEY CAST /ARTIST

Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta

KEY CREW

GENRE

Horror, Thriller

BUDGET

$40,000,000

BOX OFFICE

$118,200,000

THEMES

Despair, grief and hope.

AWARDS

NARRATIVE: The narrative structure for ‘Final Destination 5’ is a non-linear type of narrative as the protagonist of the film always experiences premonitions that occur in the future of his friend’s deaths and includes a lot of flashbacks to past premonitions he’s had in order to save people he’s close to. The premontions start when the protagonist is amongst a group of coworkers who are on a trip crossing the North Bay Bridge in North America when suddenly the protagonist get’s a premonition of two of his coworkers dying from the disaster that just occurs right after he gets the information. From this point forward the protagonist, Sam, tries to protect all of the people that supposedly died in the premonition and seeks to avoid it from actually happening. These deaths occur as a chain of events with no real perpetrator of the killings, we presume that the deaths are being caused by nature of a supernatural entity within the film.

KEY SCENES: Firstly the most significant scene in this film is the scene where the protagonist experiences the premonition of people dying on the North Bay bridge. This scene provides the audience with key information as to who dies in the film and what the future events will occur in the film. This scene also dictates what genre the film falls into, which is horror due to the consistent use of gore and suspense. The protagonist always tries to think back onto this scene in future events to try and predict who’s death is next and additionally this scene breaks up friendships in the film which lead to the rise of the antagonist at the end.

COMPARABLES: Final Destination 1, 2, 3, 4 and The Final Destination.

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