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G is for Gravity Explained


Normally I would decry how dense and unobservant filmgoers are nowadays, but after absurd assfest of asininity that was F is for Fart several thought centers of even my brain were threatening to shut down permanently.

G is for Gravity opens, in first-person view, with a presumably male protagonist driving to the beach for one last ride on his surfboard. As he unloads his gear he places several bricks in a backpack, which he straps on (remember this, it's important later). He totes his board down the beach breathing heavily, probably nervously, possibly sobbing and enters the ocean and mounts up. He paddles out for a while until the water is sufficiently deep and then dismounts the surfboard.

Ah, but remember the backpack full of bricks? Their additional mass weighs down our protagonist and keeps him from surfacing again, whence he would find a breath of life-giving air. It seems GRAVITY made it so. Any doubt is washed away in the final shot of the surfboard's aft pointing skyward, opposite the combined mass of our now-dead protagonist, his backpack, and the bricks held in their position beneath the water's surface by the force of gravity.

M. Night Serling could not have pulled off a better twist, lest he was still alive or didn't start sucking.

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I thought the fart episode beforehand was great. So weird.

But yeah, I completely missed the backpack at the start and was wondering what it was about. One of my biggest fears is sharks, so I was watching out for a shark and was sure that's what the segment was going to be about. I was even almost sure I saw the shape of one emerge in the distance when it panned underwater, but I could've been imagining.

Anyone else think they saw a shark?


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The flaw with this is, he uses the backpack full of bricks to weigh himself down. This is because he understands he doesn't have the incredible mental discipline it would take to willfully breathe under water. But why does he not simply remove the backpack, after he falls in? Just as you can't willfully drown (in most cases), you also can't refrain from removing a weighted backpack.

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