Breaking Bad Analysis - 1429 Words

Breaking Bad- Log 1 Vince Gilligan’s ‘Breaking Bad’ is a TV series about Walter White, a chemistry teacher, who starts cooking Methamphetamine to provide money for his family. In an interview with The New York Times, creator Vince Gilligan said the larger lesson of the series is that actions have consequences. He elaborated on the shows philosophy: â€Å"If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some†¦show more content†¦Douthat went on to say that Walter White and Tony Soprano represent mirror-image takes on the problem of evil, damnation and free will. Walter as a man who deliberately abandons the light for the darkness while Tony is someone born and raised in darkness who turns down opportunity after opportunity to claw his way upward to the light.[31] Gilligan intimated he would inject undertones of black comedy into the fifth season.[32] [edit]Pink teddy bear The pink teddy bear as seen during the second season A recurring motif within the second season is the image of a damaged teddy bear and its missing eye. The teddy bear first appears at the end of the music video Fallacies for Jesses fake band, Twaà ¼ghtHammà «r, which was released as awebisode in February 2009 leading to the second season.[33] The teddy bear can also be spotted on the mural on Janes bedroom wall during the final episode of the second season, further connecting the crash to Jane. It is seen in flashforwards during four episodes, the titles of which, when put together in order, form the following sentence: Seven Thirty-Seven down over ABQ.[34][35][36] The flashforwards are shot in black-and-white, withShow MoreRelatedBreaking Bad Analysis Essay : Breaking Stupid954 Words   |  4 Pages Breaking Bad Analysis Essay A man wearing nothing but his underwear and a gas mask swerving his RV down the sandy highway of the New Mexico desert. In the RV , there is a Teenager with a gas mask passed out in the front seat and two men dead on the floor of the RV. The RV has crashed into the ditch and the driver who is wearing a gas mask,Walter White, climbs out gasps for air. 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