"To See My Home Before I Die": The Trip to Bountiful, Memento Mori, and the Experience of Death
This article analyzes the portrayal of death in Peter Masterson’s 1985 film The Trip to Bountiful. My claim is that the experience of death, in the film, functions as a tool both for the elderly main character’s increased self-understanding and for her conscious, ethical action. I enter this discuss...
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2017, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
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