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Falling For Grace (2008)
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STUDIO SYNOPSIS:
The opening scenes reveal a lot. There is a fan blowing in a bedroom late during the night. The camera pans the haunting bedroom. We see a book entitled "Death of a Salesman." The foreshadowing begins.
Pages in a travel book turn in the breeze. We briefly see an old French guillotine. The idea of travel to France and death is implanted in our subconscious.
Pages in other books and pamphlets turn, we see the word 'evil.' We read the words 'temptation of Christ.' The temptation of Christ in the wilderness corresponds with the temptation in the Garden. The origin of human evil and death. n: 
More pages flip and we see the words 'the Devil,' who was in the Garden, the idea being that the devil is responsible for death.
An engraving of the fall of Satan flashes across the screen. Satan is cast to earth where he becomes the lord of death.
Finally we see a cross being raised to combat the serpent (Satan), the cross being the symbol of death's end. Jesus died on the cross and then overcame death through his resurrection.
Look behind the fan and you will see a ghostly image of a person. The fan creates wind, which is a symbol of the spirit world. In the Bible the words "spirit" and "wind" are the same Greek word.
There are a number of curious little other worldly images -- skulls, skeletons, humanoid-types, strange looking monkey types. All giving the feel of a supernatural presence.
There is a toy airplane with propellors. This, of course, begins our subconscious connection with a sense of destiny on the plane. The fan's breeze turns the props. Thus, the plane connects to this mysterious spiritual dimension.
The fan is so effectively used to represent the unseen spiritual forces that surround us that I wonder if we will see other film makers adapt the idea as well.
The opening credits end with "This is the End." A very interesting thing to project at the beginning of the film. This gives the film an eternal feel where the end goes full circle and meets the beginning.
All of this happens while Alex sleeps. The breeze passes over him as well. Sleep (dream state) is another symbol of the supernatural. And sleep is also a metaphor of death.
As the students ascend the escalator at the airport, note the decor of balloons in the background. Very suggestive of the spirit world. A spiral staircase and a red balloon was used in 
Birds have long been a symbol of spirits. The Holy Spirit, for example, is represented as a dove in the Bible. Death in many films has been suggested by a bird in sudden flight upward. Note the walls of the airport. Birds everywhere. In fact, the symbol of the particular airline that the students take is that of a bird. Also, note the clock (symbol of time running out).
Titles of books are very important. This student is reading the 'Tropic of Cancer.' We remember the books in the opening credits.
The sense of destiny is all over this film. The luggage tag reads 'FINAL DESTINATION.'
The camera is not shy with close ups of the word 'TERMINAL,' as in, well, you know...
The flight is at night (!) and rain is falling (!), of course. The rain drops streak down the airport windows as though they are fiery comets falling on the plane.
Check out the airport luggage tractor as it passes beneath the plane. The numbers on it are '666,' the number of the satanic beast of Revelation.
The film uses a baby and a handicapped man to give a false sense of security. "That's a good sign," says one of the students, "It would be a f**ked up God to take this plane down. Yep, a real f**ked up God." Of course the film has already placed the responsibility for the coming horrific disaster with the devil, not God.
The changing of seats becomes a very significant part of the film. It changes the order in which people die. It changes destiny. This will be a key revelation later in the film.
Again, the use of sleep is used to connect us to the supernatural. In this sleep scene Alex has a prophetic dream.
The dream is horrifying. We see the airplane burst into flames killing all aboard.
The dream is so horrifying that Alex awakes in a panic, yelling in terror. He has to be physically removed. He assumes a cross like position with arms out reached as officals remove him from the plane.
His behavior forces a small number of students off the plane for a later flight. From the airport lobby they see the plane burst into flames shortly after take off, just like in the prophetic dream!
Enter the questioning FBI authorities -- giving the film an X-File sense. Note the camera angle and the use of clocks, and a claustrophobic high tension room with closed doors and no windows.
The clock is an ever present symbol in this film. The FBI questioning is done as the eleventh hour approaches.
Bible students know the eleventh hour as symbolic of the time before the end. 
The surviving ones have escaped their destiny with death. Or, did they? The film makes it clear that no one can escape the inevitability of death. Or, does it? Here is a powerful film for group discussion.
Ultimately Alex comes to believe that somehow he and the others cheated death.
One by one, as each of these fugitives of fate meets an untimely end, Alex and his remaining friends must band together to change the course of destiny and outwit the untamable forces of death.  Home | Movies | DVDs | Music | Books | Comix | TV | Games | HJ Live! | Terms & Conditions | Privacy | Contact Us | Subscribe |
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