What is the deadline - ask the dead!

Where is the boundary between human being and what awaits everyone after his body shell refuses to serve him? .. An eternal question that has been exciting for many generations. You can only answer it once you are behind the deadline, so to speak ...

What is a deadline? If you simply translate from English, you get a rather frightening combination of "death line." In the palm of the hand, as is known to palmists, such a line does not exist, there is only a line of life (together with the lines of fate, heart, head). However, palmistry has nothing to do with it! What is a deadline - creators or other creative personalities will tell you about this. After all, it means it means the period by which a certain task should be completed, in other words - the time “H”! Deadline is a book written by Tom Demarco and subtitled “A Project Management Roman.” This is a kind of instruction written in an easy-to-read form, intended for employees involved in the field of information technology. What is the deadline, the heroine of the eponymous thriller could tell you. It will be discussed.

And complete isolation

The central character of the picture is the young talented Ellis. A protracted depression interferes with inspiration, and she needs to finish work on the script. And here very soon the ex-husband, whom the heroine is afraid of, is being freed from places of “not so distant”. And not in vain: after all, he tried to take her life. Ellis makes a decision (a fairly frequent move used by filmmakers): to settle in a secluded old house and indulge in creativity. Amateur videos belonging to the former inhabitants of the mansion catch her eye. She cannot resist the temptation to look at them. The impressions received, as well as their own "skeletons in the closet" will awaken the imagination. And now Ellis is faced with something terrible and inexplicable. Maybe this connects the essence from the other world? .. It is here that she fully understands what the deadline is - a thin line that separates the dead from the living! Film enthusiasts remember very well what isolation leads to creative natures. A vivid example is the crazy character of Jack Nicholson from The Shining. Of the films of recent years, the fate of a writer who has become a victim of her subconscious is indicative in the French Nightmare Behind the Wall. And you can plunge into another unpleasant story: the young novelist from the horror "I Spit on Your Graves" fully felt it. Very risked, stepping on such a slippery path, and Ellis ...

Left young

The fate of actors who have understood what a deadline (in the literal sense of the word) is during the take-off of a career is always amazing and frightening. Even worse when the lines of death played by the performer of the heroes and the artists themselves intersect in a mystical way. He could not get out of the image of Heath Ledger, who received his posthumous Oscar for the genius and virtuoso incarnation of the Joker (The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan). He did not even live to be thirty. At 32, she left for another world and played in Deadline by Ellis Brittany Murphy. It is strange and terrible that Ellis once tried to drown her husband in her own bathtub, and the body of the dead Murphy was also found in the bathroom. The fungus that infected Brittany's home became fatal to her lungs. This triggered a fatal heart attack. Sweet, bright - this artist remembered such an artist, in the thriller Deadline she seems to foresee a quick death and plays frighteningly realistic ... Is Deadline a film that became the forerunner of a sudden death?