Ellie’s descent into violence
With trauma of her own (which we’ll get to in a hot minute), Ellie’s experience of surviving the world of The Last of Us basically deletes any semblance of normal teenage girlhood. How relatable. A pivotal moment in the game is Ellie’s encounter with a group of cannibals and creeps as she searches for means of survival while Joel is incapacitated. This culminates in a vicious scene where Ellie hacks away at David, the very creepy leader of the cannibals. In a blood frenzy, she’s interrupted by Joel, who knows all too well the mental state Ellie is sinking into.
While it’s not clear whether or not these scenes are the very same in terms of the plot’s pacing, the dynamic is still present in the trailer.
