Lit Crit Lit (I haven't been outside in days, help me)

This is the trailer for the text I am talking about :)

Who is real in the text?
I believe everyone but Death is real. Death is symbolism for everyone's idea of death itself because, yeah, she is the 'person' who goes around killing people. Obviously, everyone else is probably real because there's nothing to suggest otherwise. It's strange though, while it seems like she'd be real because she interacts with other characters. But the thing is, everyone has their own experiences with death. Real death, not Death. Everyone experiences something with death. Death is there, she stays around, to allow Martha and Carl to accept what life is and what it is when it's not.

What genre does this text belong to?

Let It Be is a drama and obviously a short film. The definition of a short film is a film that isn't long enough to create a feature-length film. This is usually under 40 minutes of screen time. Our film today is 17 minutes. As for the drama thing, a drama is a serious telling of a story that sees the characters face a conflict. The conflict on the surface is dealing with Death, the character, while underneath it's Martha's struggle confronting the fact she is dying.

Why has the author constructed the characters this way?

I think they have been created the way they were to suggest a major contrast between the characters in a way that subtlely answer some important underlying questions. I see this contrast mostly in the costuming between Death, Carl, and Martha. Martha's closet is very colourful. She wears dungarees and 80s-esque jackets. This is very different from Carl, who wears turtlenecks, band shirts, and beige. And Death only seems to wear black, black hair, black clothes, black makeup. Three very different people. It makes their relationships that much more important. It explains why Carl and Martha broke up, why they constantly disagree, why Martha didn't tell Carl that she was dying. She doesn't like to live in the past and takes what comes, she didn't know how he'd feel so she just ended the relationship.

What does the author of this text want us to know?

That it's okay to accept death as what it is. At the end of the film, Martha and Carl find themselves accepting Death and accepting death. They do this in two different ways. Carl, who previously mocked Death for saying she kills everyone, comes to realise she wasn't being ironic. Or at least comes across this way when he freaks out about the fact she's gotta kill the next Beatle soon. He really wants Ringo to die. Martha's acceptance is a little more... black and white. She has a whole monologue at the end talking about death being something we should expect. She mentions that life would be very different if we didn't have an end. What's the point of doing something today when you know, you are absolutely certain, you can do it tomorrow? Martha knows and is alright with this.