After hearing all the talk of the movie Dead Man in class today, all the mythological undertones and outstanding plot, I've most currently taken it upon myself to view this insatiable cinema in order to further understand death, afterlife, and eschatology. This movie has proven to be most mythological in a great many ways, first of which is the protagonist, William Blake, at the start of this movie. He sat in a train, on his way out west hoping to take the job of accountant in the small mountain town of Machine. Before even exchanging pleasantries, he talks of the scenery that passes in relation to his stillness. As if the world were passing by us, and moving beneath us. Which most sounds like fate or destiny to me. The stranger then sits down across from Blake and inquires him of his destination. Blake goes on to say he's Machine-bound. His response is of great shock and tells exclaims to Blake, "Machine? That's the end of the line.." Which to me just foreshadows that his destination is ultimately death, but that he must first realize that destination is inevitable. That scene to me stood out the most.
If you haven't seen Dead Man I highly recommend it to anyone. It's violent, its comical, its mythological, and it's one goddamn entertaining show....also it's on Netflix.
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