PG said in one of his online video diaries that The Drop is about the last great mystery: death. The symbol he uses is waiting to parachute out of a plane, knowing it will be his turn soon, and watching the people who have gone ahead of him vanishing through a layer of cloud. He wonders where they've gone - Are they safe? Are they still falling? Have they landed somewhere? Or are they just gone?
This is an allegory for our own deaths and the deaths of those we know. We see those who die before us - they have vanished from sight, and maybe we have faith in an afterlife, maybe there is a safe landing place after the fall, an afterlife of some kind. We know that one day we will die too, and wonder what it will be like to pass through that final veil. Will we see our friends again, or will be just fall into nothing?
PG said in one of his online video diaries that The Drop is about the last great mystery: death. The symbol he uses is waiting to parachute out of a plane, knowing it will be his turn soon, and watching the people who have gone ahead of him vanishing through a layer of cloud. He wonders where they've gone - Are they safe? Are they still falling? Have they landed somewhere? Or are they just gone?
This is an allegory for our own deaths and the deaths of those we know. We see those who die before us - they have vanished from sight, and maybe we have faith in an afterlife, maybe there is a safe landing place after the fall, an afterlife of some kind. We know that one day we will die too, and wonder what it will be like to pass through that final veil. Will we see our friends again, or will be just fall into nothing?