The Army private entering pharmacy given close up shot holding butcher knife with the pointy end towards a self fulfilling prophecy by sacrifice. Foreshadowing his future death. The knife was given by the very grocery store butcher, who eventually stabs him in the gut with it during a collective psychotic religious frenzy in hopes of appeasing the gods.
by ZeusesBastard
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This character is holding the knife pointed towards himself. Later on in the film, he is stabbed by the person who gave him the knife.
or, thats just how he was holding the knife in the scene
over-scrutinising pointless minutiae
“You don’t get it, Bob. They keep coming up with these ideas and read so deep into these things.” “Someone use a smoke machine, it was dark, it was late and I can’t see shit. Sam just holding knife how he like it. No one notice that shit.”
This was filmed in my hometown! Knew a couple of the extras! Rewatching it recently I don’t believe there was symbolism of this magnitude in the film.
In The Mist, Sam Witwer is seen holding a knife backwards
This is a reference to how Vaders Secret Apprentice Starkiller is gonna kick some extra dimensional monster in the mist ass
