It Follows: The Metaphor Everyone Argues About

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:00:00 +0000

Every conversation about David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows (2014) collapses into the same argument within about ninety seconds. Someone says it is about sexually transmitted infection. Someone else says no, it is about mortality, the thing that starts walking towards you the moment you are old enough to know you will die. A third person insists it is about trauma, the way harm gets passed from one body to the next because the harmed can think of no other way to be rid of it. The film survives all three readings, and that survival is the first clue that the metaphor was never the point. The metaphor is the bait. The craft is the film.

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It Follows: The Metaphor Everyone Argues About