An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Film Studies Essay
Perhaps what makes An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge so difficult to talk about is the fact that it touches on something far more challenging than many films - it is essentially a work set entirely within the context of a single moment, in which a man deals with The ambiguous space between life and death and begins to think further. This one-minute film is an adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891). The short story has become rightly famous for its twist ending in which the hanged man's apparent near-miraculous escape is abruptly turned on its head and explained as hallucinations occurring at that moment.