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Post by theinferno on Sept 7, 2007 20:02:51 GMT -5
Its been said that the first Phantasm was about abandonment. Heres a place where we can discuss this theme from the movie. Check out this essay written quite marvelously about the four films www.phantasmarchives.net/art_nightmarish.htmlClearly Mike feels abandoned by the loss of his parents and is trying to cope with that. And now he worries about losing Jody as well. Even though he was really coping with his brothers death, and felt abandoned by it.
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 8, 2007 10:48:27 GMT -5
To me, it's kind of what the entire series is all about. Mike fearing abandonment. Although in the first film, it's a much more obvious theme.
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Post by DustinM on Sept 8, 2007 21:22:09 GMT -5
I'm currently half-way finished with a character study on Jody and I'm devling a lot into the abandonment theme of Phanasm. I think that regardless of the means (whether Jody skips town or is taken by the Tall Man), that his absence at the end of the first film was inevitable.
Therefor, I think to Mike at the end of Phantasm.... death equals not loss but abandonment in the case of Jody. Anybody follow me here? Feel free to disagree... I'm just curious what other people think.
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Post by Mesila on Sept 22, 2007 23:05:37 GMT -5
When someone dies it's the ultimate abandonment. I know sometimes grief can get so bad you practically can get angry with people you love who die because they left you - this being something that happens more to kids and adolescents than it does grown adults, but I can remember feeling it even in my 30s. Perhaps it's one of the reasons the film impressed me so much when I first saw it, which was when I was 12 - about the age Michael is, and had just begun to form relationships with people after having been a semi-autistic loner through childhood.
Sometimes I'd get really, REALLY terrified that people I loved would die, particularly in car wrecks, because it seems everyone knows someone who's died in a car wreck or been severely, permanently hurt in one.
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