Conclusion
Holiday is an experiment in story
development and film making technology. The
storytelling offers a deconstruction of the standard Good versus Evil and only came
into being because the cost of production has been reduced to practically
nothing. This technological achievement
points to a radical shift in the way the film industry will function in the
future.
Obviously,
my interest is in justice, not abduction.
What does justice look like? For almost
all abduction thrillers, justice looks like judgment and revenge. Is there some other possibility? Holiday
considers justice absent judgment and revenge from within a genre that demands
those elements. The narrative is not a
simplistic anti-judgment, anti-revenge filp-side to the abduction genre, but
rather, something else. Justice need not
look like judgment, but that is difficult to imagine. Alternative narratives such as Holiday are a mechanism to keep that
conversation going.
Notes
1. Cook, Robert. Holiday. On-line, Amazon. Directed by Robert Cook. Los Angeles: Shami Media Group, 2018.
2. Gilles, Deleuze, “To have
done with judgment,” in Essays: critical
and clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (Minneapolis: U
of Minnesota Press, 1997), 135.
3. Ibid., 129.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., 130.
6. Ibid., 134.
7. Ibid., 132.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 133.
10. Ibid., 127-128.
11. Ibid., 128.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 135.
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