Holy shit I know right where this photo was taken! Corvallis oregon, just about to enter town from I-5. Two massive left turn lanes that get filled up during football games. Even went to Google maps street view to verify
I noticed many commonalities with other media, which I will lay out non-exhaustively under a spoiler tag below. I welcome any additional such commonalities you or anyone else might be able to point out:
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Apprentice To Murder – A minor goes on trial for violence they did not instigate then upon release goes on to live in the city with their girlfriend
Nightmare On Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge – Anxiety related to and around homosexuality sublimated into threats from bladed instruments
Una Mujer Fantástica – A Queer person has to ignore horrific anti-Queer abuse they are directly subjected to lest they face additional worse abuse
Mommy Dearest – An overbearing mother figure slaps her child
Friday The 13th part 3-D – Red fabric and a rapid frame cut is used to imply blood resulting from a head injury
Empire Record – A person acting slutty and offering sex in an attempt at gaining intimate connection is dismissively instructed to preform fellatio instead
The photography of Eugeny Hramenkov – a person is forced to drink milk
A Clockwork Orange – People add drugs to milk
Clerks II – A person drops a ring on the ground as a way to deride the person in front of them
Misery – A caregiver intentionally keeps their charge infirmed to keep them around
Grandmother’s House – A person faces violence and misinformation about their mother at an initially unfamiliar relative’s house at which they are left
Meet Your Meat – A filthy pig gets shot with a gun
Harold and Maude – An older woman kisses a younger man
Johnny Mnemonic – After a lethal struggle with an adversary seemingly ends, the prior threat subsequently moves while being just garbage
Breakfast Club – A character considers it appropriate to consume things directly out of the carton
Mac and Me – Someone loses control of a wheeled conveyance and plummets off a cliff
Psycho – A killer converses with a dead body
Arsenic and Old Lace – An elderly woman keeps a body she is responsible for the death of in her basement
Revenge of the Nerds – A character coming across a condom is less-than-thrilled about the use to which the person in possession of the condom intends the condom to be put
Juwanna Mann – An aunt disapproves of her nephew playing on a basketball team
I just watched this with my wife this past October. Her first time seeing it, and yet she still knew "final destination says don't drive behind log trucks"
We didn't get to any of the other movies, or she probably wouldn't want to go to theme parks and she'd never tan in a tanning bed again (I'm okay with this one)
Oh yeah, I've seen enough stuff fall off trucks that I'm convinced it's good to do anyway. Also yeah, tanning beds are one of the more insane things that we've come up with as a species.
I always put extra space between me and anyone hauling things.
I once had to dodge patio furniture boxes on a highway because someone didn't strap everything down correctly. Didn't even realize they were shedding their cargo, it took several miles for people to get them to stop.
I always let these trucks get way ahead, or I speed ahead if they're going a little slower. I've actually seen one tip over, granted that was on a mountain road meant for passenger vehicles only, but still, I was close enough to be thankful we used a rest stop. Scary shit when you could actually get hit by a giant trunk.
I’ve seen enough stuff fall off trucks that I’m convinced it’s good to do anyway.
There are so many mouth breathers driving trucks and throwing stuff in the back without any idea how to properly secure loads that a long commute some days in my town is like Spy Hunter on hard mode. Mattresses, ladders, dollies, random furniture.
I came upon a wreck in the back country of northern Arkansas one day where one of these trucks had lost control (probably lost brakes) going down a mountain and had ran off the road and into a bunch of trees. The trees stopped the truck from going off the drop but all of the logs it was carrying went forward and through the cab.
So many horrific stories of people who basically kick themselves in the face and turn their legs backwards because they had their feet on the dashboard.
The funniest part for me is I've never seen this movie.
However I did see an entire minivan disappear under logs while sitting in traffic on the freeway.
A log truck got rear ended by a pickup and the chains snapped causing the logs to roll. There was a minivan in the lane next to the truck and it just disappeared.
I've been afraid of anything bigger than a normal pickup ever since.