Don't Look Back: Difference between revisions

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To sometimes turn around and see what's behind us is one of the most natural instincts in the world. And it goes for what you literally have behind you as well as what you have behind you in a more metaphorical sense. But sometimes, you just mustn't.

 

In drama, this is primarily a symbolic metaphor involving issues of trust and angst. However, it can also be a matter of [[You Do NOT Want to Know]].

 

 

A key part of the [[Orphean Rescue]]. Can lead to [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]. Has nothing to do with [[Don't Look Down]]: "Back" is where you are coming from, not merely a direction opposite to where your head is facing. Also unrelated to [[Unflinching Walk]], where you Don't Look Back at the ''explosion'' happening behind you simply because [[Rule of Cool|it looks cooler]]. Contrast with [[Look Behind You!]].

 

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* ''[[Bleach]]'' anime episode 168. While Division 3 is fleeing a Restrictive Current in the Precipice World, Lieutenant Izuru Kira tells his men "Don't look back". He doesn't want them to be distracted by the pursuing threat.

* At the end of ''[[Spirited Away]]'' by [[Hayao Miyazaki]], Chihiro is forbidden to look back as she is journeying out of the spirit world. She nearly does, but conquers that temptation.

* The song at the end of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''.

* The song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHF4d788YTs "Don't Look Back"] by the Savannah, Georgia sludge-metal band Kylesa.

 

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