HIT

I wrote HIT shortly after one of my friends passed away in a car accident. In the days after I received that heartbreaking news, I couldn’t stop wondering if it was instantaneous or if she knew she was dying and had enough time to make peace with that. I wrote HIT as a means to explore what it feels like to confront such an inevitable force as death and what the process of coming to terms with one’s own death might look like and the existential horrors that come with it; how your death affects those around you, and what happens to your psyche after you die.
There is surprisingly little nuance to how death and violence are depicted in media. Exceptions like Michael Haneke’s Funny Games are difficult to come by. For a long time, I have been greatly concerned with the moral and spiritual consequences of violence. As important as Phil’s process of acceptance is, the toll the act of murder takes on Katrina’s psyche in the moments leading up to it and the moments following is equally if not more important. Audiences take film and television violence for granted, and it’s important to shock that state of mind with a grim reminder of the spiritual implications that violence holds.