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An event or moment · 2019 · Cinema

The ensemble farewell

A film that functioned as a funeral for eleven characters and was marketed as a collective event.

Manipulation

Grief as a product with a marketing budget. The eleventh film in a series was sold on the deaths it contained, and the audience bought tickets to be sad in a cinema with other people, which is the whole apparatus working as designed.

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